You're right. I remember watching Klemperer on a political talk show a year or so before he died. He was really out there on the Left. However, I don't think he was as rabidly authoritarian as today's lefties are. Klemperer and Bob Crane were best friends. Crane once gave him a Mercedes Benz as a Christmas present. When Crane was murdered, Klemperer never drove the car again.
When Klemperer was offered the role of Col. Klink, he told the producers that if Klink ever prevailed in any episode, he'd quit the show. Once, when Klemperer was named the Marshal of some parade, locals protested that they didn't want a Nazi as their Marshal...Klemperer withdrew from it, but after letting them know he served in the U.S. Army during the war.
Thanks very much. I love information such as that. I’m a trivia nut.
You make a good point that Klemperer wasn’t like todays Progressives who are absolutely totalitarian.
And Sgt. Schultz was played perfectly by John Banner. The whole cast was good.
Thanks.
A quick story: I know an old liberal woman who is a real busy body and I avoid her at all costs. I happened to run into her at the grocery store because she got in line behind me in the check out line.
She started talking about a construction project where she walks and said some of the men had no ear plugs or hard hats and she was going to call “someone” on them.
I didn’t say a word and got checked out and turned to her and said “Norma, you would have made a perfect “Slitzen-frau”. (I made up the name). She asked what that was and I told her that was a Block Matron who turned people in to Hitler’s Gestapo. Her jaw dropped and I walked off.