 The man who is killed by the car near the beginning of the film is  based on a real life incident. He was identified as Julio Lopez Lido  but was in actuality Capt. Ulrich von der Osten, a Nazi army officer  in the Abwehr. He was hit by a car on March 18, 1941 and his body  went unclaimed for a time. The man who ran from the scene was  actually Kurt Frederick Ludwig, known as Joseph K, and eventually  sentenced to Alcatraz Island. He was deported in 1953. The cab  driver who hit Lido was a man named Sam Lichtman.