Over the (post war) years this battle was mystified and blown out of proportion. Recent analysis based on records already indicated, that the battle was in fact, while still grim, way smaller and quite one sided. Most recently, German post battle recon pictures of the battle site were discovered and evaluated, which very much confirm what available records already indicated.   https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/16161262.2019.1606545?needAccess=true   I found it to be