These books, which were very popular in the early s, had graphic scenes of domination, torture and sadism between female SS guards and Allied soldiers in German POW camps. The readership of these Stalags were primarily teenage boys, a majority of whom were the children of Holocaust survivors. These pulp fictions are an example of the international post-war cultural trend of presenting Nazism as intrinsically decadent. The introduction of the genre coincided with the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem.
He claims that Stalag 13 sold 70, copies. The show also took place in Stalag There were about 80 titles of Stalags in all, beginning in with one title published in The brutality of these Nazi female characters has a price. In Stalag of Leaches , the dominatrix is tossed into a pit of leaches, while in Stalag the female in charge is strangled by her ex-lover. Stalags constituted a genre of cheap exploitation novels that briefly thrived in Israel in the early Sixties during the period of the Adolf Eichmann trial, when the atrocities of the Holocaust were initially and tentatively broached in the public sphere.
Stalags usually stuck to the same tried and true formula, pawning themselves off as translations of memoirs by American or British soldiers who had been imprisoned during World War II by the Nazis and subjected to sexual humiliation and violence by SS she-devils. In the end the soldier gets to turn the tables by raping and killing his inhuman torturers.
We had only read Anne Frank. And most of the parents, they were ashamed. And there was only one man who gave the information to the Israeli people.
It was Ka-Tzetnik. He was the first Holocaust writer in the world. He was before Elie Wiesel. He was before Primo Levi. But when you analyze his way of writing, you realize that his book was completely pornography. House of Dolls talked about a pleasure block within Auschwitz, which was populated with Jewish girl prisoners who were there to serve the guards.
