Nazism as cheap turn-on?

“From Ilsa, the She-Wolf of the SS to Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, cinema has long been fascinated by the Nazis – and their link to ‘deviant’ sexuality.”

Article by John Byrne (c) THE IRISH TIMES, 2012

Also see: Stalags – Holocaust and Pornography in Israel, a documentary by the Israeli film maker Ari Libsker, 2007. The unbelievable but true story of a wildly popular series of racy paperbacks called ‘Stalags’. They took Israel by storm in the early 1960s and became national bestsellers. Their perverse and bizarre narratives, based on Nazi themes, were the only erotic ‘literature’ available in the country at that time.

 

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