Stalag p*rn
[plenty of links at original]
http://fleshbot.com/sex/found/pornifying-history-stalags-sex-and-the-holocaust-296983.php
Despite its more obvious intentions and effects, like any example of
visual culture pornography serves as a reflection of the time and
place in which it was produced: witness the cocaine-soaked ambiance
and Reaganesque paranoia of such 80s porn classics as “New Wave
Hookers” and “Cafe Flesh”, or for that matter any of the celebrity
culture-obsessed porn knockoffs of the current decade. But there’s
few examples of the collusion between porn, popular culture, and
history stranger or more disturbing than the series of pornographic
comics produced in Isreal during the early 1960s known as “Stalags”,
in which testimonies of Holocaust survivors were used as the
inspiration for graphic tales of hot female Nazis, sadism and sexual
torture.
Filmmaker Ari Libsker drew from his own exposure to these works for a
new documentary film that examines this “distinctly Israeli genre” of
porn: “I realized that the first Holocaust pictures I saw, as one who
grew up here, were of naked women … We were in elementary school. I
remember how embarrassed we were.” While they were ostensibly based
on actual first-person accounts by survivors of concentration camps,
Libsker contends that the stalags were a “popular extension” of works
by the writer who gave the first account of the Holocaust in Hebrew—
and who allegedly embellished the historical record with tales of
sexual slavery and prosititution in the Nazi’s notorious Pleasure
Block in Auschwitz. Whatever their provenance, stalags faded from the
Israeli publishing scene only a few years after they first appeared,
although their legacy lives on in any number of BDSM and
sexploitation works produced since then. Midnight movie classic
“Ilsa: She-Wolf Of The SS” didn’t exactly come from nowhere, you know.
· “Israel’s Unexpected Spinoff From a Holocaust Trial” (NY Times)
· “Fictitious memory” (haaretz.com)
· Above: Ari Libsker’s “Stalags - Sex & Holocaust - opening
sequence” (YouTube; see more excerpts here)
· Ari Libsker (Wikipedia)
· See also: “Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS” (Don Edmonds 1975) (film
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10:47 AM ON THU SEP 6 2007 BY FLESHBOT