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• Continuity: When the underground people sit around the table listening to the two Nazis, Carice's cigarette goes from having a little piece of ash, to a long piece and back to a short piece again.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In a scene shot in a powder room, on the wall behind the actress one can see a modern type lavatory-paper holder which did not exist in that time.
  
  
• Factual errors: The one half track to appear in the movie has the markings of a Gross Deutschland vehicle. This was an elite Werhmacht unit that was never in the Netherlands.
  
  

• Factual errors: After the "Hunger Winter" of 1944, there are no sheep in the fields any more, as are shown in the last part when they are following Hans.
  
  
• Anachronisms: You can hear the sound of common swifts while they try to kidnap Van Gein. These birds migrate in august and are not present in the Netherlands during winter.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When the train is entering the station, you can see the electric cables between the steam of the locomotive. During the war there were no electric trains.
  
  
• Factual errors: People are traveling by train, while in real life no trains were going any more at that point in the war.
  
  
• Factual errors: Several bicycles are shown with rubber tires. At that point in the war, only bikes with wooden tires were available.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The stylized maple leaf symbol displayed below the windshield of Dr. Akkermans' jeep was designed in the 1960's for the national flag. Before then, maple leaf designs were more naturalistic.
  
  
• Anachronisms: During the gala party held at German headquarters, the drummer is playing a natural wood-finish Premier (British) drum set manufactured in the 1980's-1990's. A period drum set from the mid 1940's would probably have been a white-pearl finish and the drum sizes, hardware and positioning would have been altogether different.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Ellis is barely conscious after an insulin overdose, she struggles to find her handbag and knocks over a tub of British 'Players' cigarettes looking for chocolate: in the next shot she is munching the chocolate, but the tub of cigarettes have righted themselves.
  
  

• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: SPOILER: Two German naval personnel, (Bruno Dorfer and Rainer Beck), were court-martialled for desertion and executed by a German firing squad, on May 13, 1945. While German military tribunals could discipline their troops, after having surrendered to the Canadian forces, (under "Allied Military Standing Order No. 153"), Canadian military law should have prevailed, (with no death sentence for desertion, and with a delay of three months before any such execution). The execution of the SS officer, by way of showing a Canadian officer a German "death warrant" and citing "Article 153," was a fiction. However, the misinformation may have been a deliberate lie by the character who presented it; the Canadian officer who believed it and acted on it is later referred to disparagingly.
  
  

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