39-45: Forbidden Love

World War Two was the most destructive conflict of the 20^th century, with 60 million deaths and more than 7 million people displaced. But nothing can stop love…   

Between 1939 and 1945, thousands, perhaps millions of men and women formed intimate relationships. Yet, the Nazi rules were very clear: German men mustn’t have a sexual partner someone considered as from an inferior race, such as French women, under penalty of imprisonment, or even death. Homosexuals were also persecuted by the Nazis. 10,000 were sent to the Reich’s concentration camps. And to these prohibitions, fruit of the Nazi imagination, were added those of the Allies...

For the first time, survivors who dared to sleep with the enemy during the war, and their children born into the shame of this forbidden unions, have agreed to break the taboo. Through the narration of four illicit stories and emblematic love affairs of the Second World War, this universal documentary sheds new light on the worst conflict in history.