Hogan's Hero's

Hogan's Hero's starts 10:00 on the Sundance channel and all afternoon. I miss this show

I used to watch it, don't think I would be interested today. There is an interesting background story about Bob Crane (who was sort of a pervert) and his murder. It was made into a movie called "Auto Focus". A very grim and depressing movie, doesn't show up on TV these days.

My dad was in the Wehrmacht. Hogan's Heroes was strictly verboten on our T.V. He said Colonel Klink wouldn't have lasted two days in the German armed forces.

What's odd is Klink, Schultz, Burkhalter, and Hochstetter were all Jewish in real life.

Lebeau (Robert Clary) was held in a concentration camp for 3 1/2 years and had the numbers tattooed on his arm.

Bob Crane turned out to be a sleaze.

They all agreed to play the roles only if the Germans played the fool all the time. Still one of my favorite shows. Helga and Hilda were babes. Watch for palm trees in the distance outside camp.

sheepdawg said:

My dad was in the Wehrmacht. Hogan's Heroes was strictly verboten on our T.V. He said Colonel Klink wouldn't have lasted two days in the German armed forces.

What's odd is Klink, Schultz, Burkhalter, and Hochstetter were all Jewish in real life.

Lebeau (Robert Clary) was held in a concentration camp for 3 1/2 years and had the numbers tattooed on his arm.

Bob Crane turned out to be a sleaze.

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Pop was Swiss in his late 20s when the war broke out. He didn’t think much of Hogan’s heroes or any of the other series or movies about it back then either.

Bob Crane was murdered during some sort of sexual escapade in a motel about 5 minutes from where I live. The case has never been solved. I used to enjoy watching the show and picking out all the errors they made in uniforming the Nazis. I did get to handle Col. Klink's Luger with was a 1920s import marked Germany.
Jim

Klink! What iz dis man doing here???

"I see nothing, nothing, nothing!" Always liked Hogan's Heroes. I never took it seriously as an insult to Germans (my ethnicity) or minimization of all the horror of World War II. Pure satire and it excelled at that. Robert Crane, whatever his weaknesses, he payed the price and may he rest in peace. I liked the old German drum cadence in the credits.

sheepdawg said:

My dad was in the Wehrmacht. Hogan's Heroes was strictly verboten on our T.V. He said Colonel Klink wouldn't have lasted two days in the German armed forces.

What's odd is Klink, Schultz, Burkhalter, and Hochstetter were all Jewish in real life.

Lebeau (Robert Clary) was held in a concentration camp for 3 1/2 years and had the numbers tattooed on his arm.

Bob Crane turned out to be a sleaze.

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I remember reading that about Clary. You watch the show and see this 5 foot nothing little fella and then learn that he was about as tough a son of a you know(I admit tougher than I and probably many others would ever be) what to have survived what he did. Can you imagine someone trying to intimidate him and his reply that he survived the Holocaust and years in Auschwitz...what can you do to me worse than that?

I liked that Banner played Schultz the way he was to kind of show that decency can be found in most any group of people regardless.

Leon Askin I read that the scar across his face he received during a beating by the SS.

Horrible show; one of the worst TV comedies ever. Gomer Pyle USMC was pretty bad but very good compared to Hogan's Heroes.

sheepdawg said:

My dad was in the Wehrmacht. Hogan's Heroes was strictly verboten on our T.V. He said Colonel Klink wouldn't have lasted two days in the German armed forces.

What's odd is Klink, Schultz, Burkhalter, and Hochstetter were all Jewish in real life.

Lebeau (Robert Clary) was held in a concentration camp for 3 1/2 years and had the numbers tattooed on his arm.

Bob Crane turned out to be a sleaze.

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My Dad was in the US Army Combat Engineers and would not allow Hogans Hero's on the box. According to him "there was not a single GD thing funny about the Nazis and they weren't stupid either."

The whole idea behind Hogan's Hero's was to satire the Great Escape.

All the main German characters were Germans that escaped the Father land before the war because they hated the Nazi's. The only way they would play German soldiers was if they could do NOTHING right.

That was the premise of the whole series. Hogan ran amok while the Germans were incompetent. Every other WWII TV series at that time was deadly serious. Now Hogan's Hero's comes along and we can laugh at the Krauts instead of siccing Patton on em' or going after em in Jeeps with Ma Deuces
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“Hogan’s Heroes” was on every afternoon when I was a kid, and I’ve probably seen every episode ten times. I’ll still catch an episode now and then on MeTV. I enjoy it for what it is, a goofy sitcom. I also enjoyed “McHales Navy” and “F Troop”, also funny shows that were not worried about historical accuracy.

Gun trivia: Schultz is carrying a Krag in many scenes.

One lasting impact of “Hogan’s Heroes” for me was the A-2 flight jacket. I wanted one of those jackets from about age 5, finally got one when I was learning to fly. I still wear it a lot to this day.

I enjoyed HH as a young boy, especially the scenes with Helga and Hilda. Watch reruns when they’re on. I am another who likes the opening theme, have it on my phone.

I doubt that a show like Hogans Heros could be produced today.

Hogan's Heroes? "I know nothing(k)".

31FordA said:

“Hogan’s Heroes” was on every afternoon when I was a kid, and I’ve probably seen every episode ten times. I’ll still catch an episode now and then on MeTV. I enjoy it for what it is, a goofy sitcom. I also enjoyed “McHales Navy” and “F Troop”, also funny shows that were not worried about historical accuracy.

Gun trivia: Schultz is carrying a Krag in many scenes.

One lasting impact of “Hogan’s Heroes” for me was the A-2 flight jacket. I wanted one of those jackets from about age 5, finally got one when I was learning to fly. I still wear it a lot to this day.

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That A-2 flight jacket was the one worn by Frank Sinatra in "Von Ryan's Express".

31FordA said:

“Hogan’s Heroes” was on every afternoon when I was a kid, and I’ve probably seen every episode ten times. I’ll still catch an episode now and then on MeTV. I enjoy it for what it is, a goofy sitcom. I also enjoyed “McHales Navy” and “F Troop”, also funny shows that were not worried about historical accuracy.

Gun trivia: Schultz is carrying a Krag in many scenes.

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It is my understanding that after Germany invaded Norway many Krags, and the ammo for them, were captured. Rather than scrap them the rifle were used for secondary troops , like prison guards and third line purposes such as police officers . I've never seen a photo of German prison guard holding a Krag but I have seen pictures of guards holding Enfields (post Dunkirk), Mosins and after Market Garden US M1 carbines. I found the Krag at least believable.

I had an uncle who spent time as a German POW after the Bulge. Hogans Heroes was OK in my family but in retrospect no adults watched. When Stag 17 first came on TV I happened to at my uncles house when the show aired. One of my cousins turned to me and asked "Do think that is what a POW camp was like?". I replied "How should I know, ask you dad, he was in one." My cousins looked at me very startled and my uncle left the room. That was the first indication they had that their dad had spent time as a POW. In retrospect his time as a POW explained some of his behaviors but how do you explain that to your kids?

When the POW medal was authorized somehow he was over looked when the medals were retroactively distributed. I'm tooting my own horn now but one of the things I'm proud of is that though my American Legion Post we were able to get that corrected. It took a couple years of work but he was presented the medal in front of friends, family, and the local press. I'm not sure if he was buried with the POW medal but it was displayed on his casket.

Old_Cop said:

I doubt that a show like Hogans Heros could be produced today.

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There are many TV shows from the "Good Old Days" that couldn't be produced today.

TTSH said:

There are many TV shows from the "Good Old Days" that couldn't be produced today.

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It’s Twu. It’s twu.

A buddy and I were just having that discussion, which included Blazing Saddles.