11.9.07

Israel's unexpected Spinoff from a holocaust trial

JERUSALEM, Sept. 5 — It was one of Israel’s dirty little secrets. In the early 1960s, as Israelis were being exposed for the first time to the shocking testimonies of Holocaust survivors at the trial of Adolf Eichmann, a series of pornographic pocket books called Stalags, based on Nazi themes, became best sellers throughout the land.

Read under the table by a generation of pubescent Israelis, often the children of survivors, the Stalags were named for the World War II prisoner-of-war camps in which they were set. 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 correction at the end of the article has to be absolutely read...

2 comments:

Stef said...

Hummm, OK, that's about the strangest thing I've seen for a while...

Sophia said...

Stef,
yes strange but yet not so surprising when you see the level of machism and violence against women in Israeli society. of course nobody speaks about that, they are not Muslims...

 
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