''SS Girls'' () is a 1977 Italian

Nazisploitation Nazi exploitation (also Nazisploitation) is a subgenre of exploitation film and sexploitation film that involves Nazism, Nazis committing sex crimes, often as camp or prison overseers during World War II. Most follow the Women in prison film, wo ...

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. The film is about a brothel where traitors of the Nazi high command are eradicated. To help the brothel out, a Nazi commander, involved in intelligence work, enlists the aid of scientists who train various prostitutes to sexually satisfy the desires of the Nazi Forces high command and root out any traitors in the Nazi military Forces or the Nazi SS Forces.

Synopsis

Near the end of

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a German officer selects ten prostitutes to root out the traitors in Hitler's

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. After many orgies and the execution of disloyal officers, the entire company kill themselves upon hearing of Hitler's death on April 30 1945 after the Soviet forces stormed into

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and crushed the remaining Nazi Forces.

Partial cast

* Ivano Staccioli as Oberstgruppenführer und General

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as Prof. Jürgen (as Alan Collins) * Gabriele Carrara as Standartenfuhrer und Oberst Hans Schellenberg * Marina Daunia as Frau Inge * Macha Magall as Madame Eva * Lucic Bogoliub Benny as Oberfuhrer und Oberst/Brigadier Dirlewanger * Eolo Capritti as Nazi General (as Al Capri)

Style

''SS Girls'' is an example of Naziploitation. This cycle of Nazi sexploitation films are predominantly Italian in origin and emerged for a brief period between 1975 and 1977. In Bruno Mattei's nazi-themed films, the settings are Nazi bordellos and are concerned with staging explicit sexuality.

Production

Parts of the score of ''SS Girls'' was from Gianni Marchetti's score for ''

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Release

''SS Girls'' passed Italian censorship on January 12, 1977.

References

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External links

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