Cynthia Lynn, Hogan's Heroes Actress, Dies

People ^ | 03/12/2014 | Stephen M. Silverman

[dfwgator]

Askin lived to the age of 98.

He was great in the movie “One, Two, Three” as a member of the Russian trade delegation.

[Colonel_Flagg]

She was attractive. Bob Crane (Hogan) divorced his wife and married her after they had an affair.

Not quite. Bob Crane married Patricia Crane, who went by the stage name of Sigrid Valdis. She played Hilda, who succeeded Lynn's character of Helga after a rumored affair with Crane.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Of course. It’s satire, and it’s brilliant.

Werner Klemperer, whose family fled the Nazis, said he would take the role of Klink only if the character would never be allowed to succeed.

Interesting story about Robert Clary, who played LeBeau and was a concentration camp survivor: in the 1966 episode “Will The Real Adolf Please Stand Up”, Larry Hovis’ character of Carter impersonates Hitler (and rather well). As Carter/Hitler is introduced to the prisoners, he is given a Nazi salute. Clary’s salute is given with his left hand and with his fingers crossed.

[dead]

Hey hey hey!

[henkster]

Bob cut a wide swath.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Very wide, sad to say.

[re_nortex]

Werner Klemperer, whose family fled the Nazis, said he would take the role of Klink only if the character would never be allowed to succeed.

Mr. Klemperer was absolutely brilliant in his role as Emil Hahn, a bitter and utterly unrepentant Nazi, in Judgment at Nuremberg.

Drifting completely off-topic, but triggered by the Klemperer surname, permit me to recommend a duo of books by Victor Klemperer. They are actually his diaries during the rise of the National Socialists (emphasis on the letter intentional) in Germany. The Amazon synopsis of I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941 doesn't begin to adequately describe these most enduring volumes:

The publication of Victor Klemperer's secret diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. "In its cool, lucid style and power of observation," said The New York Times, "it is the best written, most evocative, most observant record of daily life in the Third Reich." I Will Bear Witness is a work of literature as well as a revelation of the day-by-day horror of the Nazi years. A Dresden Jew, a veteran of World War I, a man of letters and historian of great sophistication, Klemperer recognized the danger of Hitler as early as 1933. His diaries, written in secrecy, provide a vivid account of everyday life in Hitler's Germany.

[bicyclerepair]

A show that ridicules nazis is hilarious imo. Klink was a bumbling idiot. It was hilarious.

The Americans were scheming them the whole time. How could a vet not enjoy that???

[William Tell]

shibumi said: "I saw nothing funny about it then, nor do I now, no matter how they dressed it up with pretty girls."

I found it very distressing the way the show trivialized the evil of the Nazis. One can only imagine what the world would look like today if Hitler had not invaded the Soviet Union.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[Colonel_Flagg]

I’ve read “I Will Bear Witness”. Incredible book.

Howard Caine was also in Judgment at Nuremberg (as was William Shatner).

[virgil]

One can only imagine what the world would look like today if Hitler had not invaded the Soviet Union.

I would imagine WWII would have been less of a blood bath. Most of the people killed in WWII were in eastern Europe it seems. Tens of millions died there.

[BRL]

One can only imagine what the world would look like today if Hitler had not invaded the Soviet Union. 

look at a map of germany in 1914 to get an idea

[William Tell]

virgil said: "I would imagine WWII would have been less of a blood bath."

I was considering the possibility that the Nazis might have been able to defeat the Normandy landings.

[shibumi]

I agree with you. Your point is made looking at this from the strategic view.

My original post was, however, a comment on the sheer hell endured by those taken as POWs. If things had played out the way you describe, then their fate would have been even more horrific.

[bramps]

I got it. Can’t beat the old sitcoms!