The film's original Italian title is L'ultima orgia del III Reich and it was released in 1977. It stars Daniela Poggi (under the name Daniela Levi), who went on to become a major Italian television celebrity – one who likely leaves this title off her current resumé. Before the advent of DVD restorations, I had seen this movie twice (once in a French theatre and once on an Italian VHS tape). Both times I was moderately impressed by the two GIMP scenes already mentioned.

In the first, Poggi is suspended upside down and naked over an aquarium filled with… gerbils. Yes, gerbils. Not rats. Not hamsters. But gerbils. Rodents as Ralphus generically labels them, but among the least threatening ones available.

Still, it made for an oddly erotic GIMP scene, especially when Poggi is lowered until her head is close enough to annoy the little beasties, who react by, well… not doing much of anything.

As for GIMP action, our heroine is in greater peril of dying from hanging inverted (apparently this will kill you eventually) than she is of being chewed apart by tiny, vegetarian house pets.

Remarkably, this is not the only Nazisploitation film in which a female victim is terrorized by harmless rodents. In La bestia in Calore (The Beast in Heat; SS Hell Camp) there is an even more absurd scene in which a hapless woman is disemboweled by guinea pigs. I suppose the local pet store had run out of gerbils.

The second GIMP scene in Gestapo's Last Orgy has Poggi suspended again, this time AOH and right-side up, over a pool of quicklime.

Poggi's friend is lowered into the stuff first, before being pulled out a little while later looking like… well… looking like she did before she went in, just dead and covered in milk. As in the gerbil scene, she is lowered to within an inch of certain doom, then left hanging there to contemplate her fate. Compared to the other GIMPs in this film, Poggi has it pretty easy.

And that's about all: standard sub-Ilsa Nazi exploitation fare with lovely GIMPs, a couple of flawed but entertaining peril scenes, and all things considered, reasonably good production values.

But then I saw the film a third time – on DVD and (apparently) uncensored. Hoe-lee shit. No wonder what I'd watched previously seemed so short. I must have been missing at least 15 or 20 minutes of degenerate fun because some censorious, pot-licking bureaucrat was determined to protect my delicate sensibilities. I won't get into the details here because some of the most flagrant debauchery was not GIMP related… but once I got past the killer canines, the fetus eating, and the outrageous anti-Semitism, I found myself in the middle of a third GIMP scene – this one three minutes long with master's class content.

A stunningly beautiful, completely naked woman is carried into a well-appointed room by four Nazi officers, who place her into an oversized metal frying pan. The woman is alive, but apparently drugged, so she makes no attempt to escape. As she lies supine and semi-conscious in her “skillet”, the officers are joined by a fifth man and an evil bitch in a low-cut evening gown. All six ogle and grope their victim, talking about her as if she were an expensive roast just purchased fresh from the butcher shop. “Not too lean... and certainly not too fat,” says one. “Such fine skin tone,” says evil bitch, who has a thing or two to learn about meat. “Well marbled,” says another man, making a difficult judgement considering the woman's marbling is not yet visible.

Another confused officer, apparently one with a sweet tooth, says the GIMP would make a fine “Crêpe Suzette” – which makes no sense whatsoever, but inspires the others to empty a half dozen flagons of Cognac over her body. You know where this is going, but you still can't quite believe it when the creepiest looking Nazi strikes a match and lights up the honored guest feast. The resulting conflagration isn't as convincing as the one in Don't Go in the House, but it's pretty shocking nonetheless. The victim does not struggle or scream and her body remains partially obscured by the pan, but the scene does go on for some time. The sadistic villains chortle with glee and seem to reach orgasm as the woman burns to a crisp in front of them. Later, they are seen languishing in a drunken stupor next to the charred remains of what apparently has been a most satisfying meal.

Compared to being ignored by disinterested gerbils or being dunked in half-and-half, the sautéed GIMP spectacle is IMO the walk-away winner in this film.