Thursday, November 17, 2016

There's No Porn Like Shoah Porn

I was aware that, back in 1950s America, the sudden popularity of gruesome comic books gave rise to what was known as "the Great Comic Book Scare." Until reading this today, however, I had no idea that not long after the Eichmann trial, Nazi-themed pornographic comic books ( known as "Stalags"; sample title: "I Was Colonel Schultz's Private Bitch") became all the rage in Israel. (The "Stalags," like the macabre comic books that occasioned the U.S. freak out, became the casualties--so to speak--of censorship.)

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