Stalag

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A German prisoner-of-war camp, especially in World War II. countable, historical, uncountable
  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of stalag alt-of, countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A genre of Nazi exploitation Holocaust pornography in Israel that flourished in the 1950s and early 1960; a work in that genre. attributive, countable, often, uncountable

    "stalag fiction; a stalag novel"

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bincalaboosecampjail

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"After decades in dusty back rooms and closets, the Stalags, a peculiar Hebrew concoction of Nazism, sex and violence, are re-emerging in the public eye. And with them comes a rekindled debate on the cultural representation here of Nazism and the Holocaust, and whether they have been unduly mixed in with a kind of sexual perversion and voyeurism that has permeated even the school curriculum. […] The Stalags were practically the only pornography available in the Israeli society of the early 1960s, which was almost puritanical. […] More provocatively, the movie contends that Stalag pornography was but a popular extension of the writings of K. Tzetnik, the first author to tell the story of Auschwitz in Hebrew and a hero of the mainstream Holocaust literary canon."

Etymology

Borrowed from German Stalag (“POW camp”).

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prisoner of war

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