Posted on 11/14/2016 1:40:55 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
Hilarious!
All the actors who played the major Nazi characters on the show were Jewish and all had served in the US Army or assisted the US Army overseas in some way. That was info I learned from one of the retro TV sites that broadcasts the old show. Everyone involved with Hogan’s Heroes was very proud of that fact.
I think you cracked the case, Sherlock.
And I thought it was Fraulein Helga, who was jealous of Crane’s new girlfriend.
If all German women looked more like her than Frau Linkmeier, there may have been an incentive for our boys to turn in their weapons for guns.
Major Hochstetter was played by Howard Caine (born: Howard Cohen) who fought with the US Navy in WW II fighting the Japanese in the Pacific Theater of War.
Frau Linkmeier AKA Kathleen Freeman - was a great actress............
General Burkhalter was played by Leon Askin (born Leon Aschkenasy in Vienna) who emigrated to the US in 1940 and served the US Army Air Force in WW II as a Staff Sergeant.
Where's the Cold Case Posse when you really need it?
Colonel Klink was played by Werner Klemperer who emigrated with his family from Cologne Germany in 1935, joined the US Army in WW II and served in Hawaii, joining the Army Special Services Unit touring the Pacific, entertaining the troops for the rest of the war.
Nah, the General was competent, but cantankerous and sarcastic. I think he actually liked Hogan a bit, because he knew that Hogan also saw that Klink was a fool.
Now, Hochstetter... he was the one with a volcanic temper.
;-)
Master Sergeant Schultz was played by John Banner (born Johann Banner in Vienna Austria), emigrated after Hitler annexed Austria in 1938, joined the US Army Air Corps in 1942 as a supply sergeant and served for the rest of the war, through 1945.
I wonder how our parents thought about it...or the people that were slaughtered in the gas chambers...
but I watched it too....and it was funny..
The film ‘Auto Focus’ is a truly creepy film. I recommend it for its portrayal of the seedy side of Crane’s life. I saw it in the cineplex and remember at one point I gasped out loud and was sitting there with my hand over my mouth, totally in shock. There’s also a paperback that was published as a tie-in with the book and it was a very good read.
Hmmm
IIRC, Werner Klemperer’s dad Otto (a symphony conductor), nearly disowned his son over that TV role - until he saw that it was a total mockery of the Nazis.
most believe it was his sicko friend who Crane was getting tired of carrying $$ wise- they think the fella was about to be cut off=- and took his revenge- can’t remember hisw name right now- but the fella was as sick perhaps even sikcer than crane
Bob Crane- Almost as creepy as Spirit Cooking.
Colonel Klink in the Kitchen with the Candlestick.
All of the major German roles in Hogan’s Heroes were played by Jews.
Robert Clary was a Holocaust Survivor, who still gives lectures on how life was during that time.
“Vat is ziss man doing here?”
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