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Wasn't it "Hide them in the secret owners secret underground bunker at Boerne Stage"?

There was one episode where they made a giant lighted arrow pointing to a target. They then cutaway to a cockpit seen of American pilots (doing night bombing) and one pilot says to the other "Now that's what I call service!".

I've always liked Hogan's Heroes since I was a kid, and I reckon it is great that they used a real British actor for the Brit, a real French actor for the French guy, real German actors for the Germans, etc. I think Shultz was comedy genius.

But recently I read a book by a New Zealand pilot who was shot down and imprisoned by the Germans and he made the comment along the lines of being a prisoner of the Nazis was nothing like the comedy romp that TV would have you believe. Though he didn't mention Hogan's Heroes directly it was obvious that he meant that show and that he held some resentment about the series. It made me wonder if other POW veterans felt the same way about the series, somewhat mocking what they endured by not showing the terrible conditions they lived under, and making the Germans all seem like friendly fools. I wonder if the TV network actually received many complaints at the time when it was made. Just wondering.

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lol......I watch it every day when I'm at work

It's equally funny for gun nuts to watch the rifles that Schultz carries, most of the time it is a U.S. Model 98 Krag.

I've always wanted to go to the Hofbrau for dinner with the frauleins!

Fun stuff.

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Neat things about that show-
Werner Klemperer's family escaped from Austria in 1938/39; Robert Clary had been in a concentration camp as a child: John Banner(Feldwebel Shultz) had been a German immigrant into the US in the 1930s, and posed for US Army recruiting posters during the war: I forget some of the rest, but all very interesting.

Robbie

To expand a little on Robbie's information about the cast, I have been corresponding with a fellow whose father was a Quartermaster officer in the AAF. He was stationed at Herington and later transferred to Grand Island, and Sergeant John Banner worked for him, most likely at Herington.

Scott

This is a really interesting essay on Hogan's Heroes and the Holocaust.

http://www.geocities.com/LRampey/hogan.htm

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john banner / shultz a recruiting poster boy?? that i've got to see!! must have been before all the struedel & schnitzel gruben!!

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That show was a riot and still stands the test of time...

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I wonder if maybe he posed as a "stock villain."

I always get a chuckle out of watching old M*A*S*H episodes..they used the same two Asian actors (Mako and Soon Tek Oh) as countless different "generic Korean" characters over the years. Mako was also cast as Adm. Yamamoto in the atrocious "Pearl Harbor." The actor looked about as much like the real person as Alec Baldwin does Jimmy Doolittle!

SN

PLEASE, don't mention that war atrocity of a war film. If it wasn't for the hot brunette nurse, I'd probably have walked out. Arliegh Burke class destroyers at Pearl... Alec Baldwin as Doolittle. The producers shoud be strung up!

Robbie

I rode the Lexington elevator with Mako and talked with him during one of Michael Bays many tantrums, and Mako was a really nice guy. I often wonder how those actors put up with the directors B.S.

Oh, I wasn't slamming Mako..he's always been a solid character actor. I was just saying I don't think he really fit the part of Yamamoto. I certainly don't blame him for taking it though..a paycheck is a paycheck!

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