The movie was shot in 1939 and was scheduled to be released later in that year. Production was held by the outbreak of World War 2. Filmmakers wanted to complete editing of this nearly finished movie - fortunately the German censors didn't find anything suspicious in the universal "rags to riches" story, and thus it was released during the war.
Apart from the usual degradation of a movie copy due to time and wear, the movie was edited (censored) shortly after the war to remove all traces of Igo Sym, a Nazi spy executed during the war by Polish resistance for treason. Surviving copy has barely a few seconds of his screen time, of what was a romance subplot with Raszewski and Magda Nieczaj. Surprisingly, other surviving movies with Sym were not edited.