Movie

Ordered to Love (1961)

• January 13, 1961
• 1h 27m

• Drama
• History

Overview

Revealing story about the mysterious Nazi organization "Lebensborn," which was intended to serve the SS in pursuing population policy and racial hygiene goals by systematically producing "hereditarily valuable" children. The film depicts an anti-Hitler Knight's Cross recipient with false papers who becomes a witness and victim of relevant events in a Lebensborn home, where 30 enthusiastic BDM girls and a number of SS hooligans and frontline soldiers have just moved in to "give the Führer a child."

Director

Werner Klingler

Writers

Heinz Oskar Wuttig, Will Berthold

Starring

Maria Perschy, Joachim Hansen, Harry Meyen