Goofs

When Hermann Göring's telegram is received in the bunker, a closeup shows the teletype machine printing the message in lowercase letters with German umlauts converted to ae, oe, ue and the closing note "heil hitler, h. goering, reichsfeldmarschall" aligned to the left. When the communication officer removes the paper from the machine, the text is mixed uppercase/lowercase with umlauts and the closing note is right aligned.

After Magda Goebbels poisons her children, she comes out of their room and immediately crouches against the doorframe. In the next shot she's considerably further away from the doorframe than in the previous shot, with no time to have moved.

When a soldier fighting alongside Peter Kranz in a crater is fatally shot, his eyes shut as he dies. When Peter jumps back into the crater, the dead soldier's eyes are open again.

When Magda Goebbels is laying the playing-cards on the table, there is a cut which makes her repeat placing the last card in the row.

General Karl Koller can be seen in the first shot of Hitler's first strategy conference. However in the next shot of all the generals (after Adolf Hitler orders to have Walther Wenck attack with the 12th Army) he has disappeared. In a deleted scene, Hitler ordered Koller to mobilize the remaining air force to support Steiner's attack and Koller left. This exchange occurred prior to Joseph Goebbels's opening line.

In the film, Hermann Fegelein is shown as being arrested, dragged outside and summarily shot. In fact, Fegelein was arrested and kept in a cell for at least three days in the Führerbunker before Hitler ordered him stripped of rank and to be subjected to court martial, during which he was so drunk he vomited and urinated on the floor. It was only after the court martial that he was shot.

According to Traudl Junge's memoirs and several other sources, Magda Goebbels was not present when Adolf Hitler said his goodbyes before committing suicide. She had locked herself in her room at the time.

After Adolf Hitler's conference on 22 April, when it was announced that Steiner's assault did not happen, Hitler and his entourage exited to the corridor where all kinds of people were waiting. Amongst them a Großadmiral (the equivalent of a 5-Star or Grand Admiral). The only two Grand Admirals during the Third Reich were Eric Raeder, who had resigned from his command post earlier and was not in the Führerbunker during the last days, and Karl Dönitz, who had his headquarters in Flensburg in Northern Germany, far away from Berlin.

After marrying Hitler, Eva Braun is shown wearing a wedding ring on the fourth finger of her left hand. According to German custom of the time, it would be on her right.

Magda Goebbels is shown giving each of her children a sip of a potion to make them fall asleep. In actuality, SS dentist Helmut Kunz gave each child a morphine injection to render them unconscious.

When discussing suicide, Hitler states (at least with the English subtitles) that the poison "paralyses the nerves and the respiratory system". The Nazis were well known for using cyanide. The mechanism of cyanide poisoning is to prevent cells utilizing oxygen even though the blood may be well oxygenated. Cells cannot produce ATP and this will affect the muscles of the respiratory system and nerve cells, but will actually affect all cells.

He also states "you die within seconds" whereas there is evidence that death from ingestion can take up to five agonizing minutes. Hydrogen cyanide gas inhalation can cause death in seconds.

In the scene where SS officer Fegelein is executed for treason and desertion, no bullet wounds or blood appear on his uniform when the machine pistol's bullets hit him. Also, the weapon does not eject any empty cartridge cases while it is being fired.

As the corpses of Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler are placed in their grave outside the bunker in preparation for cremation, the bodies clearly move their legs in an attempt to lie flat in the hole.

At 58.29 a German officer executes a female soldier then shoots himself in the head, however when the gun fires there there is no wound or blood as he falls dead.

Immediately when Chapter 7/Fall of the Third Reich begins, there are two German soldiers driving a motorcycle with side car. On the right side is a fresh pile of dirt that is covering an explosive underground, supposedly to look like an artillery shell instead.

In the scene in the conference room a world map is visible in the background. On this map you can see China, Korea, and the Soviet Union all at their post-war borders.

The teleprinter that received the messages from Hermann Goering is a post-war model, probably a Lorenz Lo2000, as it prints using a needle-matrix print head and uses both upper and lower case letters, which the 5-bit Baudot teleprinter code used at the time did not support. A more accurate model of teleprinter would have been the Siemens T34 tape printer which was very common in both the Reichspost and the Wehrmacht teleprinter networks.

In the first scene featuring Heinrich Himmler, when chatting with Hermann Fegelein, the left ear piercing of actor Thomas Kretschmann can clearly be observed. While not unheard of at this point in history, it is a near impossibility that Fegelein would have such a piercing.

The soap dispensers in the bunker's restrooms were, despite their classic looks, not invented until 1950 in France. They are called "Savon rotatif" (rotary soap) and were - more or less a piece of soap on a wall-mounted stick - a standard issue in French schools and magisterial buildings for many years.

Just before the arrest of Fegelein an alarm clock is shown. The clock is labeled "OX3" (Cyrillic O Ch Z) the logo of Russian clock maker Orlovski Chasovoy Zavod, which was established in 1952.

Goebbels was five feet tall, seven inches shorter than Hitler.

Goebbels was actually five foot five inches (165 centimeters) tall, four inches (10 centimeters) shorter than Hitler.