Stalag fiction

Stalag fiction

:"Stalags redirects here. For the POW camps, see Stalag. For the documentary about Stalag fiction, see Stalags (film)"Stalag fiction was a short-lived genre of Israeli fiction Nazi exploitation that flourished in the early 1960s, at the time of the Eichmann trial.

Premise

Purported to be translations of English-language books by prisoners in concentration camps, these books were highly pornographic accounts of imprisonment, generally of Allied soldiers, sexual brutalization by female SS guards, and the prisoners' eventual revenge, which usually consisted of the rape and murder of their tormentors. [cite web| url=http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Entertainment/2007/09/06/documentary_looks_at_nazi_porn_in_israel/5000/| title=Documentary looks at Nazi porn in Israel| work=UPI | date=2007-09-06] The books, with titles like "I Was Colonel Schultz's Private Bitch", were especially popular among adolescent boys, often the children of concentration camp survivors.

History

The books emerged from the culture of silence that surrounded the Holocaust, especially in Israel, until the Eichmann trial. Many young people lived in the shadow of these events, but could find no answers to their inevitable questions, whether from their parents or their teachers. For most of adolescents, the only answers they could find were in the book "The House of Dolls" (1955) by K. Tzetnik, a then-anonymous survivor of Auschwitz who wrote about women prisoners forced into prostitution by the Nazi guards—his book was later discovered to be a work of fiction. Nevertheless, it had an impact on young Israeli males as they went through puberty: questions of identity and their parents' violent past melted into their emerging sexual identity, often fostering graphic S&M fantasies. This became more prevalent during the highly publicized Eichmann trial, when these same young people were exposed to detailed descriptions of the concentration and death camps for the very first time. K. Tztenik himself was one of the witnesses who provided graphic testimony during the trial.

Exploiting these trends, a group of Israeli publishers began to publish dime novel-format memoirs, describing abuse, particularly sexual abuse, in the concentration camps. Sold in magazine kiosks, the novels, ostensibly first-person memoirs, became best-sellers. According to filmmaker Ari Libsker, "the Holocaust pictures that I saw, as one who grew up here, were of naked women." [cite web| url=http://www.cinephil.co.il/_Uploads/416NY_Times_Stalags.pdf| title=Israel's Unexpected Spinoff| publisher=The New York Times| author=Isabel Kershner| format=PDF| date=2007-09-06] These had a marked impact on an otherwise puritanical society, and the books quickly became bestsellers.

They disappeared almost as quickly as they appeared. Within two years of the appearance of the first publication, the publishers were accused by an Israeli court of distributing pornography, and the books were discontinued. Although still available underground, certain titles earned the ire of the establishment, and efforts were made to find and destroy them.

In 2007, the genre re-entered public debate in Israel after Israeli filmmaker Ari Libsker featured the books in a documentary film, "Stalags". [ [http://www.cinephil.co.il/Index.asp?CategoryID=77&ArticleID=416 cinephil.co.il] ]

ee also

*Stalags (film)

References

External links

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* [http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0815,porn-scar,404100,20.html Village Voice]


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