Patzer

In the scene at the Sylvester evening the camera shows the sky and it's snowing, but there are just a few clouds in the sky so it can't really snow.

Saxony didn't separate itself from the Holy Roman Empire. It was separated after the Rheinbund was founded in 1806, to which Saxony was included later. Also, in the movie the inclusion of Saxony is mentioned by King Franz II. In real life it didn't happen until December, almost four months after Franz's resignation.

The words of the resignation speech by King Franz II in the film are different than the ones in the actual speech.

When Napoleon is visiting the grave of Friedrich the Great in Potsdam he says, "Would I stand here if you were still alive?".Napoleon really did visit Friedrich's grave, on Oct. 25, 1806, and actually did say words similar to those ("You wouldn't have come here if Friedrich would have been alive"). However, he said them in Friedrich's flat in the Potsdam palace, not at his grave.

Ludwig von Lucadou is portrayed as a coward who would rather surrender the town of Kolberg to Napoleon than fight to save its freedom. However, in real life Lucadou didn't want to give up Kolberg and had been protecting the town since autumn of 1806. Furthermore when a French Leader arrived in Kolberg and requested capitulation of Kolberg, it was Lucadou and not Nettelbeck, as pictured in the movie, who refused capitulation because of the culpability from the Government in Stettin. Only in March 1807 did he start to worry about the patriotism of its citizens, especially of mayor Nettelbeck. Soon afterward the people of Kolberg were displeased by his rule and he was dismissed from the position. Also, if Lucadou were actually as he was portrayed in the movie he would never have been promoted to Major General in 1807 and received a pension of 1000 thaler.

August von Gneisenau was 47 when he became commandant of Kolberg, not 32 as stated in the movie.

During the summer party in Kolberg Nettelbeck said that Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia died. However, Louis died in October of 1806, not during the summer.

Some of the lines from Gneisanau's motivation speech in Kolberg in 1807 were actually from the appeal "An mein Volk" (To my people) which was written in 1813 for King Frederik Wilhelm III.

In the first scene set in 1813 Gneisenau mentions the compulsory military service that existed at the time. Even through the first mention of the military service in Prussia was in 1813--provided by the Reforms of Prussia--the actual start of it by law was in 1814.