Within one scene David Bermann (Moritz Bleibtreu) and his friends destroy the red Plymouth of their opponent. The actors really crashed the car with battens, picks and iron rods - and enjoyed it a lot. Actor Tim Seyfi described it: "For us it was a children's birthday party." Afterwards the car was an economical total loss.
The art department used 275US t debris to dress the central set - the crossroad. They had to take care, that there wasn't any foam concrete within this debris, which wasn't invented back in 1946. They added metal and pieces of furniture, that it fitted for this area - but no wood, as it has already been fueled during the hard winter 1945.