This was the last film that Henry Koster directed in Berlin before having to leave due to Nazis. He left Berlin, having knocked out an SS officer, one day before filming was finished on the movie. The Nazis removed his name from the credits and substituted the name of "Hasse Preiss", the lyricist.
The Nazi censors omitted a shot from the film for reasons of taste. In the scene in which the characters are so drunk that they see everything double, there originally was a shot of a dog urinating against a wall. This was seen in double also by the drunken characters. This shot was edited out of the final film by order of the Nazi government.