- The Allied approved censored version ran 80 minutes and omitted two scenes; one where the British officers make snide comments about Petersen's presence on board the "Titanic" and, more substantially, the entire epilogue where Officer Petersen condemns Bruce Ismay's actions during the inquiry into the sinking. The final inter-title that blames the disaster on British capitalism was also removed.
- The censored print was released on video in 1992, most recent DVD and Blu-ray releases are sourced from a slightly damaged, but more intact 85 minute version.
- Certain sources claim that the original unreleased premiere print of the film ran 90 minutes. The longest available version today runs only 85 minutes.
- Joseph Goebbels ordered massive re-edits on the film before the 1943 premiere in Paris, leaving many subplots and characters' fates either obscured or completely unresolved.
- The DVD and Blu-ray released in the United States by Kino Video is the restored 85 minute version, but some European home video releases contain the censored 80 minute cut.
- A heavily re-edited Russian dubbed version of the film, with the original German opening and closing credits removed, was screened across the Soviet Bloc as a "trophy film" in the 1950s, but is now considered lost.
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