Movie errors for the day (EatG)

War History Online has an article about the errors in Enemy at the Gates:

Enemy at the Gates is a 2001 war film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. The film’s title is taken from William Craig’s nonfiction book Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad (published in 1973), which describes the events surrounding the Battle of Stalingrad in the winter of 1942-1943.
The plot is mostly fiction, Historian Antony Beevor suggests in his book Stalingrad (published in 1998) that, while Zaytsev was a real person, the story of his duel with König is fictional. Although William Craig’s book includes a “sniper’s duel” between Zaytsev and König, the sequence of events in the film is fictional. Zaytsev claimed in an interview to have engaged in a sniper duel over a number of days. Zaytsev, the only historical source for the story, stated that after killing the German sniper and upon collecting his tags, he found that he had killed the head of the Berlin Sniper School. No sniper named König has ever been identified in the German records.
In the film, the troop train arrives near the Volga, so that the emerging soldiers can see the river and Stalingrad. At that time the rail line ended miles from the east bank of the Volga and they would have either marched, or ridden in carts or trucks to the city.

The first scene showing the map (above) has several big mistakes:
Switzerland is shown to be invaded by the Nazis, however Switzerland was neutral in the war and has not been invaded by anybody for quite a while.
That same map shows Germany invading Turkey. This never happened either, as Turkey did not enter the war until 1945, and never engaged in any combat.
It also shows what appears to be a modern map of Russia, as the Baltic states and the Ukraine are shown as independent countries, but these were all annexed by the USSR years before the Nazis invaded.
The Junkers Ju88 bombers are flying way too low for a bombing run. They are barely clearing the buildings they are bombing. At that height they would be sitting ducks for small arms fire, and would be damaged by the explosions and debris from their own bombs.
Headquarters units try to be as inconspicuous as possible so as not to reveal their location to the enemy, therefore you do not park tanks in front of them.
The German army never had a 116th Infantry Division in World War Two. There was a 116 Panzer Division (Windhund) that was formed in 1944 from the 16 Panzergrenadier Division.
In the movie, Vassili Ziatsez is using a Mosin Nagant Model 1891/30 sniper rifle with a 3.5x power PU scope on his sniper rifle. In reality, Ziatsev used the larger, 4x power PE scope.

The one ribbon that Major König (photo, above) wears on his ribbon bar is a non-combatant’s version of a commemorative medal for World War One veterans. Not only is it unlikely that an ace World War Two sniper would have been a non-combatant in World War One, König wears a combatant’s World War One Iron Cross ribbon through the buttonhole of his tunic, directly contradicting the ribbon bar.
The NKVD regiment responsible for shooting retreating troops are dressed in regular army uniforms, not NKVD-issued uniforms.
While Danilov is a commissar for most of the course of the film, the rank of commissar was eliminated on 9 October 1942, well before the end of the Stalingrad battle.
Whistles were never used in the Soviet Army as a signal for attack.
In the scene where Vassili is lighting the cigarette butt he picked up from the German sniper, it’s apparent by the flame he's using a butane lighter. Butane lighters were not invented until the 1950s.
When Vasily and Danilov arrive at the banquet with Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet national anthem can be heard playing in the background. This anthem was not adopted until early 1944, just over a year after that scene takes place.
Every pistol shown in the film seems to be correct, being either Tokarev TT-33’s or 1895 Nagant revolvers, except for one. During the initial “human wave” charge, after the Soviet conscripts turn to retreat back to their lines and are cut down by friendly fire, there is one camera shot which shows two NKVD officers firing semiautomatic pistols. The nearest one is only partially visible, but appears to be a Makarov PM, rather than a Tokarev TT-33. The Makarov pistol was not designed until just after the war.
When Danilov crashes his car near the fountain and it rolls over, radial tires are seen. Although patented in 1915, radial tires were not used on vehicles until the 1960s.
The stethoscope used to examine Tania near the end of the movie is actually a post-1960 style. Stethoscopes before 1960 always have two separate tubes attached to the bell.
The locomotive hauling the troop train is a German Kriegslok (“war locomotive”). Captured Kriegsloks were not used by the Soviets until after the war, and even then mainly in the Baltic and border states, due to the difference in gauge.
When Koulikov is shot his body falls short of the other side of the gap. This would not happen. Being shot would have no effect on where he landed.

Rico says these guys are a little picky, but it shows how hard it is to get it right...