Thursday, June 09, 2005

First sex doll invented by the Nazis?

An article on blogcritics maintains that during World War II, Hitler's war machine created the world's first sex doll: Borghild. The 'field-hygienic project' was an initiative of Himmler, who regarded the doll as a 'counterbalance' for the sexual drive of his stormtroopers. The project was considered 'Geheime Reichssache', which meant 'more secret than top secret.'
The world's first sexdoll or 'gynoid' was built in 1941 by a team of craftsmen from Germany's Hygiene Museum in Dresden. Psychiatrist Dr. Rudolf Chargeheimer wrote the following note as the project went forward: The sure thing, purpose and goal of the dolls is to relieve our soldiers. They have to fight and not be on the browl or mingle with 'foreign womenfolk.'
Eventually, the project appear to have been put on the back-burner and what remained of the project was destroyed in the bombing of Dresden in 1945. Further reading available at Salon.com.

Verrry interesting, but what does this have to do with movies you might ask?
Heck, I'm not really sure. Maybe I'm just a sucker for weird news items about sex dolls, or wacky Nazis, naawww that's can't be it. More likely I'm just looking for any excuse to plug the recent dvd release of the exploitation flick S.S. GIRLS from Media Blasters. This Italian film, was directed by Bruno Mattei in the Seventies and starred Gabriele Carrara, Macha Magall and Marina Daunia.

2 Comments:

Blogger Chris Knight said...

Hey, I did the "go to next blog" from my own a little while ago and found yours. This is a great blog! As a WWII fanatic I'm finding that REALLY fascinating about Hitler. Mind if I add your blog to the links on my own? And seeing as how you're into film, I just debuted my very first on the Internet this past week. Go to theknightshift.blogspot.com and click on the graphic on the right-hand side, and our official site at forcery.kwerkyproductions.com to check out FORCERY: "George Lucas used to make Star Wars for a living. Now he's making it to stay alive." Hope you'll enjoy :-)

10:18 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i guess those dolls must be very durable in order to survive on battlefield.

12:24 PM  

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