It sticks out like a sore thumb if you know what you are looking at.

If I remember right it's a Krag

German with a Kraig.

Right. As it turns out both John Banner and Werner Klemperer were Jewish and had certain requirements to do the Show.
Klemperer refused to do the show unless it made the Nazi's look like Morons as did Banner.

I SEE NOTHING!!

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Is he wearing an officers uniform?

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Even Burghalter was Jewish. Hey, Hitler. The jokes on you.

"Shaddup Klink!"

HH was a good TV show as long as you didn't think it resembled reality. I've known some people in German prison camps and none of them remember a rollicking good time tricking the Germans.

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It's funny that Schulz was a toy maker before he was drafted.

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When ever he was shown with a rifle in his hands was it a Kraig?

Well for one thing I see three Slings Buckles,I don't remember seeing that on a military rifle 49 years ago.

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Maybe it was a Danish krag. If I remember rightly, that's hinged on the front and swings open to the front rather than down to the side as does our Krag.

The front loop isn't closed and was called a "Stacking" or "Piling" swivel. Used to build little rifle teepees in camp.

And the rifle shown is a regular old US Krag. German POW camps often kept obsolete or captured rifles for guard duty, but a Krag seems an unlikely item! Not that it really mattered for the entertainment value of the TV show.

I always wondered what the "third swivel" was for. I just googled it and its all clear now. Learned something new again.

Never watched HH, was before my time and was never shown on our two channels as a kid. Might have to look for it.

I found it!!! He only has half of his mustache. Ta Da!!
Peace,
Gordon

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Dang I missed that. Good eye!

Usually came on just past my bedtime when it originally aired. Somehow the sight of the staff car coming through the gates in the opening was super thrilling! Wanted to watch more.

Earlier seasons seem best now that I've watched them on DVD. The reruns in the '70s and '80s were in no particular order.

The drum track in the opening before the theme chimes in is pretty martial with the dogs, trucks, searchlights and all.

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You beat me to it.

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Stacking swivels went out when the M1 was replaced by the M14.

My parents came over here in 1952 from Germany. My father was in the Wehrmacht, captured by Americans near Metz, Oct. 1944. Hogan's Heroes was strictly "verboten" in our house.
My father hated Klink, said he wouldn't have lasted 30 seconds in the German Luftwaffe.

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I don't think Hogan's Heroes was intended as a history lesson, but then I see nothink, nothink! Colonel Hogan, I see nothink!

I know nutzing! Nutzing!

I don't even see his thumbs in this picture.

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That's not a bratwurst peeking out over the top.

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My uncle was in a German POW camp. He was wounded during the Battle of the Bulge and hid in a windmill with 3 other American soldiers from I think the 116 Infantry. After 3 days they were all captured. He couldn't walk because he was shot through the hip. Those nice Germans were going to kill him on the spot because he couldn't walk but a man with them that he had never met carried him on his back to the POW camp in Germany. Needless to say my uncle told me his stay wasn't like Hogan's Hero's. That was all he ever said about his time in the POW camp. He weighed 170lbs. when he was captured & 90lbs. when his camp was liberated. And he had no use what so ever for a German or anything made in Germany.

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One of the reasons my dad came to the United States was the way he was treated by the Americans at the POW camp. The GIs found out me dad was a very talented artist and put him to work painting murals of pretty women in the officer's and enlisted men's clubs. Water colors and charcoals of GIs too. My dad said he never lacked for American cigarettes.

I still have some of his POW drawings. My favorite of the bunch, my grandmother.



Also said the GIs didn't treat SS near as nice with MPs coming into the barracks and dragging them out never to be seen again.

My dad wouldn't sit through ten seconds of HHs. He didn't care that it was supposed to be a farce.

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Robert Clary, Jewish, who played LeBeau, was deported at first to the concentration camp at Ottmuth, then to Buchenwald. Clary was 12 at the time, 1942, and the youngest of 14 children. 12 members of his immediate family was sent to Auschwitz and murdered by the Nazis.

He credited his singing ability with saving his life in the camp. After he returned to France after WWII he found out three of his siblings survived.

Out of all the main cast members Robert Clary is the last surviving one.

My father, never captured during his Army service in WWII (301st Signal Corp, 3rd Army) but knew a few guys that were wouldn't allow my brother and I to watch the show. We still every now and then were able to watch when he wasn't home.