well if you look carefully you see that those stars are not painted on the Tiger II but they are painted on a pice of fabric and laid on the Tiger,i wounder why???.And keep in mind that the King Tiger came out middle to late 1944 wich gives it only a slim chance of this being a prpaganda and there where two different versions of the king tiger,1 had a Persche Turret and the other (the one on that pic) had a Henschell turret.but gorehound already explaind it very well,i saw the same thing in the Movie "Battle of the Bulge"