Posted on 06/30/2013 10:22:56 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Robert Clary, the guy who played Frenchie in Hogan’s Heroes was in a concentration camp. I watched a documentary about Hollywood’s depiction of the Holocaust, and he was interviewed.
All the men who play the main German soldiers (Col. Klink, Gen. Burkholder, Major Hochstetter and Sergeant Schultz) in the show are Jewish.
I didn’t know that.
When The House Un-American Activities Committee began investigating the Hollywood communists the investigators were and still are decried as alarmists and anti-Jewish bigots. They are still being excoriated in academia as a right-wing, know nothing, persecutor's of innocent people of talent who were not communists. Sean Penn's father, for example, was a communist who went on the blacklist and had to make his living outside of Hollywood, still writing for the Broadway stage if I recall correctly.
The point is that these communists are held up as martyrs, men who were idealists and who were not in thrall to Stalin. The contrary in many cases is the reality.
The historical result of all this is that it is incredibly difficult today to make the case that anyone, (dare I say the name, Barack Obama?) is a communist. This has the effect of insulating much of the green movement and much of the leadership of the European Union from their communist biographies. I do not think it was an accident that Van Jones was removed from the Obama administration not because he was an acknowledged communist but because he was a "truther."
I believe that it would be illuminating to know if these same individuals cynically followed the Soviet line during the time of the pact because it would demonstrate that they were hardly high-minded idealists but down the line ideological, Soviet, communists.
You bring up the key point right there. The hardcore Communist Left in America were very Nazi friendly up until the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Hitler had been allied with the Soviets for years, and had circumvented many parts of the Vesailles Treaty with Uncle Joe’s help. Their working together long predated Molotov Ribbentrop. The Communist Left in the US was getting their marching orders from Moscow, and that included being friendly to the Soviet’s allies, the Nazis.
. . . but then, JFK wasnt even the one Joe Sr. was grooming for POTUS.
That was Joe, Jr. - and he flew bombers against the Nazis.And died doing it.
I read somewhere that most every actor playing a German in that show was Jewish. All of leading German roles.
You bring up the key point right there. The hardcore Communist Left in America were very Nazi friendly up until the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Hitler had been allied with the Soviets for years, and had circumvented many parts of the Vesailles Treaty with Uncle Joes help. Their working together long predated Molotov Ribbentrop. The Communist Left in the US was getting their marching orders from Moscow, and that included being friendly to the Soviets allies, the Nazis.It would be illuminating to learn whether the likes of Sean Penn's father who collaborated with communists throughout his career in Hollywood also collaborated with the Nazis, at least during the period of the Molotov/Ribbentrop pact.7 posted on July 1, 2013 1:38:59 AM EDT by nathanbedford
Ah, yes . . . there was the famous story of the Daily Worker rushing out its first edition after the German invasion of the USSR - lambasting the fascists on the front page, but not having taken time to redo the editorial page, which was pro-Nazi.
And whooppee, this Folk Musician 'author' is enrolled at Harvard, another so what. Look at the mope in the WH and the other Harvard mopes he hired as 'czars' and that lesbo 'just-us' Kagan - Harvard. Screw Harvard, screw these asshats, WWII ended in 1945 get a f__king life.
Is this a defense of Hollyweird? Very liberal-like, what with shooting the messenger.
Leftist rewriting history. “Hollywood Party”- Billingley “How Communism seduced Hollywood.” Then there are all the Hollywood types who took the 5th, some testified, etc
Hollywood still can’t tell the truth about Stalin’s USSR and we still get anti Nazi movies
How many anti-Nazi movies were produced in the 1930s?
That’s right.
All the men who play the main German soldiers (Col. Klink, Gen. Burkholder, Major Hochstetter and Sergeant Schultz) in the show are Jewish.
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Werner Klemper (sp) who played Col. Klink was a hard core leftie in real life.
Nazi influence in Hollywood made no difference....In what? Please explain.
I didnt express that very well. They made no difference in influencing public opinion or government policy.
Werner Klemperer agreed to play Klink if and only if he could portray Klink as an idiot and a poltroon.
Werner Klemper (sp) who played Col. Klink was a hard core leftie in real life..... Yes. A Jew.
Yes. A Jew.
If he’d been alive, he would have voted for Obama.
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