- Revealing mistakes: When Tully is leaving Sikorsky's office, he is supposed to have a broken right arm. Yet, when he rises from the chair, you can see him push off the arm with his right arm (both arms, actually) and then open the door with his right hand.
- Factual errors: In two shots you see a double-deck bus. While these existed in Berlin at the time, this one is a London bus as the entry/exit platform is on the left rather than the right.
- Factual errors: Jeeps from WW2 were all manual transmission with a long gearshift lever. Tulley is seen driving a Jeep more than once after he has his right arm broken. That would have been impossible to do.
- Factual errors: The newsreel speaker says the Potsdam conference takes place in "Emperor William's former palace". This is not correct. The Cecilienhof palace was built for the last crown prince of Germany, who lived there from 1917-19 and from 1926-45.
- Anachronisms: Sikorsky examines some currency, paying close attention to the serial numbers. He's shown examining the bills: their serial numbers are rendered in an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) typeface, which wouldn't be introduced until decades later the period of this film.
- Crew or equipment visible: Camera shadow on the prosecutors' uniform at 57:59 into the film.
- Continuity: Throughout the film, people constantly call George Clooney's character Geismar, with an "A". This is also how Tully spells it on his card when he meets Jake at the airport, and it is also how it is spelled in the book. Yet when Jake spells his own name to a soldier at Postdam, he spells it Geismer, with an "E".
- Revealing mistakes: Tully wears a hat with a silver border trim. This is an officer's hat, but Tully is clearly enlisted.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Upon Geismer's first visit to her apartment, Lena lights the stove and begins heating a kettle. Shortly, she announces she is going to bed, leaving the kettle over the stove's flame (as well as a lit candle on the table).
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- Factual errors: SPOILER: After the slug is removed from Tully, it's said to be a ".32". In fact, the Russian Nagant pistol used to kill him was 7.62 mm, which is much closer to .30 caliber than .32
- Continuity: SPOILER: The second time Tully is shown dead, the dirt on his face has a different pattern from the first time.
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