For any Hogan's Heros Fans

Bob Crane was a somewhat scummy individual in real life and eventually got himself murdered. That case is still unsolved. There was a movie about him and his murder called Auto Focus. One of the most depressing and repulsive movies you could ever watch.
 
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Always loved this show. Have many on tape and DVDs still.
 
Years ago a buudy and i were building deer shooting stands, which were almost 14 feet up. After he calculated the smallest (cheapest) nut and bolts to buy, he questioned the need for angled cross bracing. Told him an engineering degree wasn't required when ya grew up watching Hogan's Heroes.
 

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I always thought Stalag 13 was directly across from the Headquarters.
Larry
 
I watched Hogan's Heroes some in the '60s. Hate to admit that as it wasn't a good show then, except for maybe scenes with Hilda in them. Like many '60s
TV comedies, it didn't fare well over time. Worse now than it ever was.
 
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I always thought Stalag 13 was directly across from the Headquarters.
Larry
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Stalag 13 was the Luftwaffe POW camp in the show. Hogan's hut was, in the show, Klink's 1st stop. REPORT!!!
 
I always thought the show was an affront to those poor individuals who spent time in German prison camps. I never knew anyone who did so say it was a humorous time. The Germans weren't fumbling buffoons, they were strict disciplinarians and often brutal in their treatment of prisoners.
 
Tom S. said:
I always thought the show was an affront to those poor individuals who spent time in German prison camps. I never knew anyone who did so say it was a humorous time. The Germans weren't fumbling buffoons, they were strict disciplinarians and often brutal in their treatment of prisoners.
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Hollywood ruins everything.
 
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I always thought the show was an affront to those poor individuals who spent time in German prison camps. I never knew anyone who did so say it was a humorous time. The Germans weren't fumbling buffoons, they were strict disciplinarians and often brutal in their treatment of prisoners.
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Long ago I worked with a guy who had been a WWII POW in a German camp. He had a great loathing for anyone and anything German.
 
Tom S. said:
I always thought the show was an affront to those poor individuals who spent time in German prison camps. I never knew anyone who did so say it was a humorous time. The Germans weren't fumbling buffoons, they were strict disciplinarians and often brutal in their treatment of prisoners.
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When the show’s creators approached Werner Klemperer about playing the part of COL. Klink, after some reflection, Klemperer agreed to play the part on the condition that Klink was portrayed as a bumbling fool.
 
Corporal LaBeau( robert clary) spent about 3 years in concentration camps, Buchenwald being one. He lost ten siblings in the camps. Sergeant Schultz, John Banner, served in the US Army Air Corp 1942-45, appeared on a US Army recruiting poster, that was before his wifes cooking over took him. Some interesting reading of the cast in the show.
 
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John Banner who played Sergeant Schultz was Jewish. While he had no problem portraying the idiot Sergeant, he refused to touch a Nazi weapon. If you look, you'll see that he always carried a U.S. 1899 Krag-Jorgensen rifle. The producers figured nobody would notice.
 
I had an uncle who spent 2 years in a German POW camp.

To him there was absolutely nothing humorous about that experience -- or the show.
 
Grayfox said:
John Banner who played Sergeant Schultz was Jewish. While he had no problem portraying the idiot Sergeant, he refused to touch a Nazi weapon. If you look, you'll see that he always carried a U.S. 1899 Krag-Jorgensen rifle. The producers figured nobody would notice.
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That is an internet rumor.



In one episode he carries a Luger. In another episode he is pointing an MP40 at escaping prisoners.



And "he refused to carry a Nazi weapon", but he was perfectly fine wearing a swastika and saying heil Hitler?
 
I remember seeing John Banner in another movie in which he played a German helping Americans to escape Germany but I do not remember the title.
I looked it up. It was "36 Hours" with James Garner in the lead role. A pretty good movie in which the Germans almost tricked Garner (as an Army officer) into revealing the D-Day invasion plans. Banner had many small parts in lots of movies and TV shows prior to Hogan's Heroes. He was an Austrian Jew, died at age 63.
 
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