Rude awakening: The Holocaust & Israeli pornography [audio 10min]

For a few years in the early 1960s, small, pornographic books called Stalags were a runaway success in Israel. The books were set in Nazi prisoner-of-war camps and featured a complicated mix of violence, sex and revenge fantasy. And according to Ari Libsker’s new documentary, Stalag, they shaped, and even perverted, a generation’s feelings about the Holocaust.