Tarantino said he’s not worried people might be offended by the short film, which is being promoted by a trailer that is now a viral video on the Internet.

“You would have to have absolutely, positively no sense of humor at all not to get it,” Tarantino said.

“Stolz der Nation” — which translates into English as “Nation’s Pride” — was produced true to the style of Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler’s propaganda minister, but by Eli Roth, the director-actor who also plays one of Tarantino’s “Basterds” known as the “Bear Jew.”

“There was something that we enjoyed immensely about the idea of a Jew making a Nazi propaganda movie,” Tarantino said.

Roth, well known for his R-rated horror flicks such as “Hostel,” said while growing up as a Jewish boy in Boston, Massachusetts, he never dreamed he would make a Nazi propaganda film.

“After ‘Hostel 2,’ I thought ‘God, what can I make that’s more offensive and upsetting than this film,’ but somehow I did it with ‘Nation’s Pride,’” Roth said.

Roth viewed the black-and-white film as a character in “Inglourious Basterds,” a World War II fairy tale about a squad of Jewish-American soldiers who infiltrate behind enemy lines to terrorize the German army.

Their plot to assassinate Hitler focuses on a small Paris, France, theater where Germany’s leadership is gathered for the premiere of Goebbels’ movie. The black-and-white film glorifies a fictional war hero played by Daniel Bruhl “and the glory of the swastika and the power of Germany,” Roth said.

“His courage was bound by duty. His legend was baptized in blood. His name will be crowned in glory,” the trailer’s narrator says as Pvt. Fredrick Zoller picks off dozens of American soldiers from a sniper’s nest.

“Being Jewish, I wanted to make it a real propaganda film,” Roth said. “I was, like, I want to show what these movies are like. I don’t want to do a sanitized version.”

Using just 20 extras and five stuntmen, Roth shot the five-and-a-half-minute film in three days in Gorlitz, Germany, the same town where “The Reader” was filmed a year earlier, he said.

“The whole time we were shooting, we were, like, not only does this have to impress Quentin, this has got to impress the Fuhrer,” he said. “Hitler has to see this and go ‘This is your finest work.’”

“The German crew were going ‘God, normally, we can’t do this. This is so illegal.’ And I was, like, ‘this is what they did,’” he said. “This is what Joseph Goebbels would have done, and this has got to be honest and accurate.”

While only parts of “Nation’s Pride” are seen in “Inglourious Basterds,” Roth said Tarantino will likely include the complete film as a bonus on the DVD.

In the early ’90s, names like Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Smith, Robert Rodriguez and Steven Soderbergh reinvented the notion of the “independent film,” combining attitude, originality and commercial appeal as few had before. In the years that followed, huge names like Bruce Willis, Tom Cruise and Bill Murray took a break from big blockbusters to embrace the indie spirit. The careers of Tarantino and Pitt could be looked at as bookmarking the phenomenon.

“Yeah, we started about the same time,” remembered the actor, thinking back to 1993′s “True Romance,” a now-classic that received a small release as a Christian Slater vehicle since few knew the names of the film’s writer (Tarantino) and supporting actor (Pitt) at the time. “[In the time since], we’ve had numerous peripheral run-ins and mutual admiration bumps. And it was nice that something came together.”