I thing Robert Clary ("Lebeau") is still alive.The strange thing about that program is that Clary had,in fact,spent time in a camp during WWII.It's also said that John Banner (Schultz) lost relatives in the Holocaust.And it's interesting to know that Banner was in the US Army during WWII.
Yes, Robert Clary is alive.
So is Kenneth Washington, who played Baker, replacing Ivan Dixon in the final season.
When I said “all dead” I meant all involved in the murder.
All the Germans on the show were Jewish and all but Major Hochstetter were in the United States Army in WW2. Hochstetter was a bluegrass artist from Nashville.
All the ‘Nazis’ were Jews. Klink, Schultz, Hochstetter, Burkhalter - all Jews.
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 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..
Leon Askin made it to the ripe old age of 98.
He played the Soviet newscaster in Airplane II who announced that “A Four Alarm fire in Moscow has cleared the way for a glorious new tractor factory.”
He was also great in “One, Two, Three” as a member of the Soviet Trade Delegation, “We have emergency meeting with Swiss Trade Delegation. They send us twenty car-loads of cheese. Totally unacceptable... full of holes.”
Leon Askin, who played Gen. Burkhalter lost his whole family in the holocaust. Most of the Nazis on the show were Jewish. Crane was a sicko, but I still like the show.