[citation needed] The song was first recorded in August 1977 at Free Range Studios with Mark Ryan on guitar; this version appears in the film Jubilee (in the scene depicted on the single sleeve).

"Deutscher Girls" and "Plastic Surgery", also from the Jubilee soundtrack, were the first Adam and the Ants tracks released on vinyl.

[citation needed] With the band's popularity at an all-time high, their former label E.G. Records decided to cash in this success by releasing "Deutscher Girls" as a 7" single.

[2] "Deutscher Girls" was inspired by the controversial art film Portiere Di Notte (The Night Porter) by director Liliana Cavani, and starring Dirk Bogarde (after whom Adam and the Ants' 1979 debut album Dirk Wears White Sox is named) and Charlotte Rampling.

[3] The 1974 Italian film featured elements of Nazisploitation; Bogarde plays a former Nazi, and Rampling a former concentration camp inmate.