- Acting for Two: Günter Meisner played both Adolf Hitler and his sister Angela.
- Actor-Shared Background: Jo Cavalier is a boxer who became boxing trainer. Jean-Paul Belmondo himself started his career as a boxer.
- Fake Nationality: Simon Rosenblum is a little Jewish German boy. His actor, Rachid Ferrache, is French. Also a case of Not Even Bothering with the Accent.
- Irony as She Is Cast: The German actor who played the chief Gestapo agent, Benno Sterzenbach, was actually arrested by the Gestapo in Real Life for "spying", but was released out of lack of proof.
- Typecasting:
- This was the first time Günter Meisner played Hitler. He would play him again (and much more seriously) in the 1980s miniseries adaptation of The Winds of War and a few other works.
- Benno Sterzenbach was no stranger to Nazis/World War II German officer roles (wacky or not), such as Major Achbach in La Grande Vadrouille (also directed by GĂ©rard Oury).
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