No sex please, they're video Nazis

From ‘ Ilsa the She Wolf’to Tarantino’s ‘ Inglourious Basterds’, cinema has long been fascinated by the Nazis – and their link to ‘deviant’ sexuality, writes JOHN BYRNE

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