Eww Factor

[+ WmClarke]

It's hard for me to judge people for what turns them on. Take the Stalag novels, published in Israel in the early 1960s, right after the Eichmann trial. They were apparently popular with young teenage boys, the the children of Holocaust survivors. The authors had English names, giving the impression that they were first-person accounts translated from English. But they were actually written by Israelis. From the NYT:

 

The books told perverse tales of captured American or British pilots being abused by sadistic female SS officers outfitted with whips and boots. The plot usually ended with the male protagonists taking revenge, by raping and killing their tormentors.

 

The Stalags were practically the only pornography available in the Israeli society of the early 1960s, which was almost puritanical. They faded out almost as suddenly as they had appeared. Two years after the first edition was snatched up from kiosks around the central bus station in Tel Aviv, an Israeli court found the publishers guilty of disseminating pornography. The most famous Stalag, “I Was Colonel Schultz’s Private Bitch,” was deemed to have crossed all the lines of acceptability, prompting the police to try to hunt every copy down.

 

“I Was Colonel Schultz’s Private Bitch...crossed all lines of acceptability" because its victim was a non-Jewish French prisoner while the tormentor was a male SS officer. Like the video in the OP, that hit a little too close to home.

 

http://static01.nyt.com/images/2007/09/06/world/06stalag-600.jpg

 

Ever wondered what Bridge over the River Kwai would be like if it were remade as a low budget BDSM porn flick?

http://www.cinemapolitica.org/sites/www.cinemapolitica.org/files/films/stalags8.jpg

Fascinating bit of history! Sounds like the forerunner of the repulsive film Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS (allegedly filmed on the Hogan's Heroes sets after hours).