The Banality of Colonel Schultz’s Private Bitch (Susie Bright)
Sep 6th, 2025 by Viviane
The popularity of the Stalags only declined after a much-reported trial, in which their authors were accused of distributing anti-Semitic pornography. The film examines this notorious phenomenon, exposing the creators of this literary genre for the first time. Moreover it posits that pornographic aspects appears in canonic Holocaust literature and continue to be spreaded as part of the representation of the Holocaust in Israel, in schools, books and trips to Auschwitz.
Director Ari Libsker, born in an orthodox kibbutz in the north of Israel, is a financial journalist and documentary filmmaker. Behind him are the works “Circumcision” (Israel 2004) and “The Home Poem” (Israel 2006). * Director and Co.Pro: Ari Libsker * Producer: Barak Heymann * Editor: Morris Ben-Mayor
A NYT story today, in their Jerusalem Journal, reports on a new documentary, Stalags: Holocaust and Pornography in Israel, which reveals that the much-disgraced “SS Camp” porno-books that thrilled and shocked their countrymen since the early 60s, were created by Israeli authors who mined an apparently unbeatable combination of horror and titillation in the wake of the hair-raising Eichmann trial.
At the time they were published, the Stalags were introduced as if they were translated from English, the memories of American soldiers who’d been tortured by big-breasted Nazi dominatrices. But as you can see from the interview with their original publisher, Ezra Narkis, it was all a big P.T. Barnum-style set-up.
Just to show you how touchy the subject is, journalist Debbie Nathan alerts us that the NYT censored their print edition to exclude a quote from an Israeli scholar, who insisted there were “no Jewish whores” at Auschwitz. The professor was trying to say something reassuring, but the fact that she used a phrase like “Jewish whore,” in any context, clearly freaked out the Times’ editors. (more. . .)