She Devils of the SS (1973)
"Eine Armee Gretchen" (original title)

In the last days of WW2, women are volunteering from all over Germany to serve in the front lines by having sex with the brave Nazi soldiers. But when they start having sex with each other,... See full summary »

Director:

Erwin C. Dietrich

Writers:

Karl-Heinz Helms-Liesenhoff (novel), Erwin C. Dietrich (screenplay),

Stars:

Elisabeth Felchner, Karin Heske, Renate Kasché

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Elisabeth Felchner	...	Marga Kuhn
Karin Heske	...	Eva Kuhn
Renate Kasché	...	Ulrike von Menzinger (as Renate Kasche)
Carl Möhner	...	Dr. Felix Kuhn
Helmut Förnbacher	...	Captain Mannteufel
Alexander Allerson	...	Colonel Stett
Hasso Preiß	...	Major
Birgit Bergen	...	Supplies Officer
Milan Beli	...	Aljoscha
Anne Graf	...	Intelligence Chief Stein
Klaus Knuth	...	Gestapo Officer
Elke Boltenhagen	...	Claudia
Michel Jacot	...	G.I. Lieutenant (as Michael Jachel)
Frank Krones	...	German Officer (as Frank Krönes)
Elisabeth Fricker	...	Recruit Goldschmidt

Storyline

In the last days of WW2, women are volunteering from all over Germany to serve in the front lines by having sex with the brave Nazi soldiers. But when they start having sex with each other, things get complicated. Especially with the increasing danger from the revengeful Soviet army!

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Plot Keywords:

sex | nazi soldier | danger | nazi | tank | 

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Genres:

Drama | Thriller | War

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Details

Country:

Switzerland

Language:

German

Release Date:

1 January 1973 (Switzerland)

Also Known As:

SS Cutthroats

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Color:

Color

User Reviews

Hard to describe without angry sentences

This film, Eine Armee Gretchen (1973) by the European trash/sleaze/soft porn _producer_ king Erwin C. Dietrich is among those very few grade Z films that really make feel angry for many reasons. Firstly, the whole sub-genre of exploitation, nazsploitation, is very repellent and something that should not be used as a theme in entertainment, I really think. It is so easy to exploit something that makes beasts curious, why else there would be pictures of real deaths, suicides and so on on the Internet, for example? From nature comes many dangerous instincts that are the more dangerous, the more the animal in question has "intelligence" and ability to calculate.

The most notorious, perhaps, of all Nazi atrocity garbage films is Canadian Don Edmond's Ilsa - She Wolf of the SS from 1974 that includes graphic violence, torture and laughable cinema but also spawned many sequels and rip-offs that started to exploit the original exploitation.

What makes especially Dietrich's piece of world's most boring 96 minutes of celluloid among the most unspeakably painful experiences in my life is that it doesn't even try to present the nazis as evil and destructive, it presenents them only to have another reason for a new sex scenes which the film is full of (surprisingly, the film is practically goreless unlike the other films of the genre, but that fits well to the career of its director). Naturally the film's status is so low that criticism like this is pretty useless: there's nothing in the film that the most untalented amateur group could not have made.

Another thing is that no matter how tolerant I am towards trash and B cinema, this goes way under all the categories in its level of braindead. It has no plot or any dramatic moments to make it at least marginally interesting for a second, the acting is not acting, only reading lines in front of the camera, the scenes are ridiculous (the final battle in green grass with tanks must be seen if you thought your home video was bad) and the editing done in 2 seconds with garden scissors. All these make those 96 minutes feel like an eternal death alive, and since it underestimates the viewer so pathetically, this is among the exploitation (usually revenge themed) turkeys that are without any, absolutely, any merits. Not even a single frame is interesting, visually or dramatically. The Swiss DVD was released for some reason, think twice do you really want to pay many Euros for it (fortunately I got mine in trade for some junk!)