Warbird Information Exchange

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.