Vincent Tilsley had intended this to be a six-hour drama, and was so disheartened when he saw that what he considered to be his best work had been cut out that he gave up writing for television and became a psychotherapist.
Michael Sheard (Heinrich Himmler) and Tony Steedman (General Alfred Jodl) would later reprise their roles in The Bunker (1981), which likewise depicted the final days of Adolf Hitler's life.
Unlike the usual practice in English-language depictions of Nazi Germany and the people around Adolf Hitler, where the word "Fuehrer" is left untranslated, instead it has here been replaced throughout with the word "Leader".