Comments by "Nattygsbord" (@nattygsbord) on "Prussian army during Seven Years War/7년 전쟁의 프로이센군" video.

  1. I think this movie is overall badly researched, but fact checking was a bit difficult before the internet.... I guess that he confused Frederick with his father, who used other methods to get recruits for his regiment of tall men - which Frederick abolished. And Prussia had conscription and used mostly their own nationals, eventhough its true that some minorites also served in his army. But overall do I think this movie misrepresent the situation. And the uniforms that the wear in this movie couldn't be found anyware in the book Die infanterie regimenter friedrich des großen, so everything seems to be fiction. I also have a vague memory that Frederick abolished torture, but it is possible that I am wrong.. And while I would give Kubrick credit for good military music on fifes and drums from that time period, It is also none the less true that the songtext to the Hohenfriedberger Marsch was composed many decades after the Seven years war, so this movie is unhistorical. I know that I might sound nitpicking, but you add up hundreds of small historical inaccuracies, one after another, this movie gets annyoing. And I think it is also too long and too boring to watch.
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