The film features two German commanders who were later executed--Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel (Werner Hinz) and Generaloberst Alfred Jodl (Wolfgang Lukschy, uncredited). Rommel was implicated in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944, a month and a half after D-Day, and was given the choice of suicide, with a hero's funeral and protection for his family, or a disgraceful death following a show trial. He chose the former. Jodl was one of two high-ranking Wehrmacht general staff officers to face trial at Nuremburg after the war. He was found guilty of war crimes and hanged by the Allies in October 1946. Jodl was later declared not guilty of war crimes by a West German court in 1953, although this verdict was overturned following pressure from the US.

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