Hogans Heros question
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Sure they did. The character’s name was Colonel Robert Hogan. Schultz was Hans. Klink was Wilhelm.
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General Burkhalter's First name was Albrecht. Major Hochschtatter was Wolfgang. LeBeau was Louis.
Side note: about half the cast of Hogan's Heros were European Jews who got out just before Hitler Rose to power. Almost all of them lost people in the Holocaust and Robert Clary (LeBeau) was a concentration camp survivor.
Leon Askin was an Austrian Jew as was John Banner. Werner Klemperer's father conducted the Berlin Philharmonic until he took his family and left Germany.
Howard (Cohen) Caine (Major Hochschtatter) was an American Jew who fought in the Pacific. Theater during the war. He was also a master of the 5 string banjo
Side note: about half the cast of Hogan's Heros were European Jews who got out just before Hitler Rose to power. Almost all of them lost people in the Holocaust and Robert Clary (LeBeau) was a concentration camp survivor.
Leon Askin was an Austrian Jew as was John Banner. Werner Klemperer's father conducted the Berlin Philharmonic until he took his family and left Germany.
Howard (Cohen) Caine (Major Hochschtatter) was an American Jew who fought in the Pacific. Theater during the war. He was also a master of the 5 string banjo
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Richard Dawson died in 2012. The only surviving cast member is Robert Clary who is 94 years old
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Carter's first name was Andrew
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Did major Hockstetter ever truly send anybody to the Russian front ?
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Peter Newkirk
According to wiki, James Kinchloe
According to wiki, James Kinchloe
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Wikipedia has a fairly extensive entry on Bob Crane. His murder remains officially unsolved, and is likely to remain so. There was a movie made about Crane and his murder called Auto Focus. It is perhaps the most depressing movie you will ever see.
I think Bob Crane was killed by a camera tripod and police suspected his friend as the murderer. Crane and his buddy would hang out at bars and get women and video tape sexual acts with them. There was no evidence but many years later DNA testing was invented and the police found his friends old car in a salvage yard and did some testing. They found some blood on the car and it tested out to be from Bob Crane but to present it for court evidence they needed to do a more formal test and they couldn't because there was such a small amount and it was very deteriorated. The friend was arrested but not convicted and was let free if I remember correctly.
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That would've been General Burkhalter. Klink and Schultz both got orders for the Eastern Front several times and Hogan always got them deleted. Usually by staging an escape and having Klink catch whoever escaped.
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I understood most of the Jewish members of the cast took on the roles as they made fun of the German Army and had clauses that they would refuse to work if their former oppressors were ever shown in a favorable light.
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My dad was Wehrmacht, captured by the Americans near Metz in the fall of 1944. Hogan's Heroes was strictly verboten at my house, He hated it. He didn't have a sense of humor about the war what so ever.
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My wife hated it too.
Same in our house but because my dad was a POW for 6 months, he said the Nazis were ruthless not a bunch of incompetents.
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I like the German Cavalry March used for the theme. I wonder what the onset conversation was like. Much of the cast only agreed to play along with the sitcom if the Germans were portrayed as fools.
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The theme was made up for the show and actually had lyrics. See below. Crane played drums for the theme song.
Hogan's Heroes Lyrics - Theme Song Lyrics
My dad served in the ETO. He never cared for the show but he never forbade us to watch it. He would usually go into another room with one of his Louis L'Amour books.
Mom liked Newkirk.
Mom liked Newkirk.
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I got it from someone there.....
...that is sure wasn't anything like 'Hogan's Heroes'.
...that is sure wasn't anything like 'Hogan's Heroes'.
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The only reason I watched it.......
....was that it was patently ridiculous......and funny.
"SHAT UP, KLINK!"
....was that it was patently ridiculous......and funny.
"SHAT UP, KLINK!"
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I read somewhere that John Banner (Schultz) carried an Krag rifle in the show as he refused to carry a Mauser.
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Yes, he did carry what appeared to be a U. S. .30-40 Krag. Maybe it's a Norwegian Krag, but I'd have to see a picture to tell the difference. I've never heard anything about a refusal to carry a Mauser. IMFDB says it is a U. S. Krag, mentions nothing about why Schultz carried it instead of a Mauser.
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However a lot of MP40s, Lugers and P38s were seen.
In one early episode I saw a German soldier carrying one of those funky Commando Mark III .45 acp carbines from the 1960's that looked similar to a Thompson SMG but was very cheaply made and had a trigger that looked like a Zippo lighter.
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I'm going to have to go binge through the series now. Loved it when I was a kid.
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I read a book about American and British troops in a POW camp.
Some of it was strange enough to remind me of Hogan's Heros.
Some POWs found a German officers' pocket pistol in a jacket
hung up, or turned in for cleaning. They took it and the POW
officers, nominally in charge of the prisoners, had to talk
extensively to get the appropriators to put it back.
Reminded me of the TV show.
There was also a lot of tunneling going on and some of the methods
of getting rid of the soil dug out also sounded like they were
the basis of some of the goings on on the HH show.
The book may have been "Escape From Colditz." It's been years
since I read it, however, so I'm not sure.
Some of it was strange enough to remind me of Hogan's Heros.
Some POWs found a German officers' pocket pistol in a jacket
hung up, or turned in for cleaning. They took it and the POW
officers, nominally in charge of the prisoners, had to talk
extensively to get the appropriators to put it back.
Reminded me of the TV show.
There was also a lot of tunneling going on and some of the methods
of getting rid of the soil dug out also sounded like they were
the basis of some of the goings on on the HH show.
The book may have been "Escape From Colditz." It's been years
since I read it, however, so I'm not sure.
