Maximilian Schell won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Hans Rolfe (the renamed version of Otto Rolfe) in the film version Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). This made him the first of only two actors to win an Oscar for a role that he originally played on television. The second was Cliff Robertson, won won the same award for his role as Charly Gordon in Charly (1968). Robertson originally played the role in The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon (1961).
It's been widely believed that one of the sponsors, The American Gas Company, asked that the term 'gas chambers' not be used in the program. However, the show's announcer, Dick Joy, told the "L.A. Times" in the 1970s that this is an urban legend. Scripts had to be approved by all sponsors before being slated for production, so any objections would have been raised then. In fact, it was a nervous CBS executive who ordered the videotape to be bleeped before the broadcast.
Maximilian Schell, Werner Klemperer, Torben Meyer and Otto Waldis later repeated their roles from this production in the film Judgment at Nuremberg (1961).