I was all set to review Secret Invasion or Punisher: War Zone today, but a very special request must be answered first. I’ve known Teresa since my first stint in comic blogging, and she’s good people. Teresa was upset that I cut short my look back at She Devils of the SS, which is funny considering she’s the person responsible for my efforts in maintaining a relatively safe for work blog. Years ago she complained about my use of nudie pictures during the lead up to International Read A Comic Book Naked Day, which prompted me to replace all of said pictures with photos of kitties. She was right, of course, but now because of her plea I present to you the finest in Naziclownsploitation. Please keep in mind that most of the subsequent links lead to NOT SAFE FOR WORK images.

She Devils of the SS is set in Southern California standing in for Germany during WW II, with a squad of American soldiers storming a brothel for high-ranking Nazis officers and partaking of the services of the women there after their victory. Unfortunately for them the prostitutes are also highly-trained commandos, and the softcore shenanigans end with nearly everyone getting killed.

The reason it took me so long to track down She-Devils of the SS was because that isn’t it’s original title. In fact, there’s another movie with the same title, and this particular movie has also been released as The Cut-Throats, Cut-Throat Kommandos, and SS Cutthroats. The collective memory of my friends offer up very little, but what is remembered is shared by all very vividly; the title, the Nazi clown and the sound of a timpani whenever she shows her ass, and a woman fucking a fat guy’s foot. Nearly everyone I know who has heard about that last part cringes in disgust when it’s brought up. We don’t remember much because She Devils of the SS was enjoyed the way almost all cheapjack sexploitation films should be approached; in the background while you’re doing something else, like playing cards, and only noticed when someone points out some absurd piece of business. So you’ll have to forgive me for initially forgetting about the bedroom decor and naked dude fights.

The most surprising thing I found out about She Devils of the SS was its age. Watching it recently, with more than a decade of exploitation films under my belt, it’s easy to tell that this is from the late 60s, early 70s, but for years now I was under the impression that it was from the mid 70s, around the time of Ilsa, She-Devil of the SS and the greatest concentration of Naziploitation. In fact, She Devils of the SS predates Ilsa by at least 6 years, and may be the very first Nazi sexploitation film, or at least tied with Love Camp 7. It’s downright innovative!

My peers often talk about how difficult it was to find porno back in the day. You could steal a peek at someone’s hidden stash, try to decipher scrambled cable stations, find magazines in the woods, or watch the local multicultural channel after midnight for some Nunspolitation. At the time, when I heard of the days of stag reels and recordings I felt sad for those early pioneers who had such limited access to pornography. Now, with the internet, I realize I was closer to those dinosaurs than I could have initially imagined.

Mom and Pop video stores provided the Trojan horse of pornography. An otherwise innocuous b-movie could often give up the goods without our parents ever knowing. Possibly the most notorious of such films among my friends is She-Devils of the SS. In it, a group of WW II soldiers raid a Nazi bunker that turns out to be a brothel, and quickly escalates into the greatest Nazi clown foot fetish porno ever made.