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As of 2011, this movie has not been released in Germany.

The banner on the city bus stating "BERLIN RAUCHT JUNO" (Berlin smokes Juno) is an advertisement for a cigarette brand later distributed to German soldiers.

The first scene is a fairly accurate depiction of the Berghof, Adolf Hitler's mountainside residence near Berchtesgaden and Obersalzberg in Bavaria. The house was famous for its huge picture window which overlooked mountain scenery and was often used to impress visiting foreign VIPs.

Considering the release dates of this movie--August 1940 in the UK and December 1940 in the US--there are many remarkable depictions of the onerous nature of the Nazi system, something not fully appreciated even by UK audiences at the time. The UK had bent over backwards to accommodate Adolf Hitler in the late 1930s, and the war had only gotten serious a few months earlier in 1940 with the debacle at Dunkirk in France (May to June) and followed by the aerial Battle of Britain (July to October), which was well underway when this movie was released. The US would not enter the war for a full year after its December release date.

The second of six film appearances by Charters and Caldicott (played by Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne). They first appeared in Sir Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938), also written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder. They later appeared in Crook's Tour (1940), Millions Like Us (1943) and It's Not Cricket (1949), which were also written by Gilliat and Lauder, and in Dead of Night (1945).