Deutscher Angriff auf eine sowjetische Stellung (Januar 1943) Englischer Untertitel

Even though it is a propaganda film, I am very surprised how relaxed the German soldiers are before the assault.

I’ve seen this before, and if I’m right it is from the defence of Cholm in what was Byelorussia. Terrible situation where the German forces were surrounded for several months in a small town greatly outnumbered. Eventually they broke the siege and made it out. Fantastic but lengthy, depressing and traumatic book (a novel) called Siege by a chap called Russ Schneider. He wrote a few about the Ostfront. All very violent and traumatic. He ended up killing himself.
There you are, all very cheery.
I tell you what though, I have never felt so cold as when I was reading that book- he absolutely captured the cold and exhaustion and fatigue and the violent surrealism of that part of the war, a real master of detail. Shame really- I think he was prone to depression and his obsession with the morbid, horrific and violent turned his mind.

That’s either real or crazy good staged propaganda and I honestly don’t know which

Literally nazi propaganda wtf