Posted on 03/15/2014 7:12:37 AM PDT by csvset
Cynthia Lynn, one of the last surviving cast members of the 1965-71 sitcom Hogan's Heroes, died Monday in Los Angeles after suffering from hepatitis, reports Variety. She was 76. Born Zinta Valda Zimilis, in Riga, Latvia – she came to the U.S. with her family after World War II – the attractive blonde played Colonel Klink’s secretary Fraulein Helga, with the braided hair, during the first season before making appearances later in the series' run.
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RIP
She was attractive. Bob Crane (Hogan) divorced his wife and married her after they had an affair.
Hogan’s Heroes had an interesting cast. Werner Klemperer (Klink) and Robert Clary (Lebeau) were Jewish. Clary had actually survived the Holocaust. Crane was murdered under mysterious circumstances; his case has never officially been solved although a poor DA tried to prosecute someone once on very flimsy evidence.
RIP, I really liked her when I was a little girl. She seemed quite glamorous to me.
John Banner (Schultz) and Leon Askin (Burkhalter) were also Jewish. Both got out before the war, but IIRC, Askin lost family in the holocaust.
My father-in-law was a WWII ETO vet. His evaluation of a show he would never watch ... “WTF is so funny about Nazis?”
Hogan’s Heroes had an interesting cast. Werner Klemperer (Klink) and Robert Clary (Lebeau) were Jewish.”
So was John Banner (Schultz), Howard Caine (Hochstetter), and Leon Askin (General Burkhalter)
I can’t say that I blame him.
‘I see something”!
RIP and thanks for the laughs.
Although Cynthia Lynn did have an affair with Crane and posed nude for him.
The Daily Mail had that info.
Cynthia Lynn, best known as Helga on hit 1960s show Hogan's Heroes, dies aged 76
Exactly.
Speaking from my own point of view (having served in combat, albeit many years ago) the thought of being taken prisoner is far more disturbing than the fear of death.
I watched this show once. I saw nothing funny about it then, nor do I now, no matter how they dressed it up with pretty girls.
Read somewhere that every major German role in the show were all played by Jewish actors.
Her role wasn't an acting effort. She was to dress up and be sort of a foil to Klink. Indeed, she dressed up his office.
Maybe it wasn’t funny, but ridicule can be an effective tool against tyrants.
Interesting take. My Dad joined in the invasion of Iwo Jima. He was in Nagasaki after the surrender. That part of the occupation caused little skin cancers for him the rest of his life. He still said the rest of his life that the Nagasaki he saw was the most beautiful sight anyone ever saw or could hope to see.
Askin’s short clipped speech pattern as Gen. Burkhalter was based on Goering; if you see the film clip of Goering in the dock at Nuremburg, that’s how Burkhalter sounded.
Same background and assessment from my father. My mother on the other hand loved the show.
So was John Banner (Schultz) and General Burkhalter (Leon Askin)
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