Stalag fiction

Many of these books purported to be real accounts from actual Allied prisoners-of-war, and avoided featuring Jewish characters in an effort to prevent them from becoming controversial.

They are mostly no longer available in traditional publication format, but with the advent of the Internet works in the genre have been circulated via peer-to-peer file sharing.

[2] The books, with titles like I Was Colonel Schultz's Private Bitch, were especially popular among adolescent boys, often the children of concentration camp survivors.

Within two years of the appearance of the first publication, the publishers were accused by an Israeli court of distributing pornography and the books were discontinued.

In 2003, the genre re-entered public debate in Israel with the research of popular culture analyst Eli Eshed.