The British Major Airey Neave serving the Indictments on the accused war criminals had a
real life counterpart in Lt.Col. Airey Neave DSO, OBE, MC. Major Neave escaped from German captivity twice. He made his second escape from the maximum security Colditz Castle in January 1942 in the first successful British "home run" - that is, safe return to England.
The song that Hermann Göring starts singing and the other Germans start to sing in their cell is called Wenn Wir Marschieren.
The Warner Brothers' Region 1 DVD of this complete miniseries, which is out of print, is now a valuable collector's item.
Major, later Lieutenant-Colonel, Airey Neave DSO, OBE, MC, was the first British prisoner-of-war to successfully escape the high security Colditz Castle. He later worked for MI9 and served with the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremburg Trials. In 1979 he was assassinated by a car bomb at the British Houses of Parliament while in service to Margaret Thatcher's Official Opposition as its spokesman for Northern Ireland affairs.
Major Airey Neave who appears as a minor character, he informs Goering of the charges against him, was a real life WWII hero who would go on the become a member of parliament after the war. He was murdered in 1979 by the INLA, a Northern Irish terrorist group.