Hogan’s Heroes
August 25th, 2011 at 7:00 am by David FarrarCame across this by chance. It’s the cast of Hogan’s Heroes in a Xmas show with Bing Crosby. Schulz and Klink singing in German is superb.
Ignore the ad for the first minute.
Brings back great memories.
Tags: Hogan's Heroes, You Tube
August 25th, 2011 at 7:35 am
I always thought that it was funny that Klink was played by the Werner Klemperer who was jewish. Memories indeed.
Vote:August 25th, 2011 at 7:42 am
I cant even begin to imagine what you were looking for when you “came across this by chance”.
Someone told me a couple of weeks ago the actor who played Schulz actually was German and spoke relatively little English. Not sure if that’s from the Bureau of Made Up Stuff though.
Vote:August 25th, 2011 at 7:46 am
Bob Crane in better days- Before he got into ‘home movies’ and before his creepy mate bashed his head in while he slept….
Vote:August 25th, 2011 at 7:49 am
Ironically, Robert Clary, who played LeBeau, was French Jew who had survived imprisonment in Buchenwald.
Vote:August 25th, 2011 at 7:56 am
In fact a whole passel of the actors were jewish and some had been in concentration camps.
Vote:August 25th, 2011 at 8:05 am
i see nothing.
Vote:August 25th, 2011 at 8:11 am
It is replaying on comedy tv. Still very good classic tv. “I see nothing” schultz is wonderful. The cast has a great mix of characters who rub off each other as well as the outlandish plots.
Vote:August 25th, 2011 at 8:30 am
I can’t enjoy it anymore after watching autofocus. So depressing.
Vote:August 25th, 2011 at 8:39 am
The actors who played the four major German roles—Werner Klemperer (Klink), John Banner (Schultz), Leon Askin (Burkhalter), and Howard Caine (Hochstetter)—were Jewish. Furthermore, Klemperer, Banner, Askin, and Robert Clary (LeBeau) were Jews who had fled the Nazis during World War II. Clary says in the recorded commentary on the DVD version of episode “Art for Hogan’s Sake” that he spent three years in a concentration camp, that his parents and other family members were killed there, and that he has an identity tattoo from the camp on his arm (“A-5714″). Likewise John Banner had been held in a (pre-war) concentration camp and his family was exterminated during the war. Leon Askin was also in a pre-war French internment camp and his parents were killed at Treblinka. Howard Caine (Hochstetter), who was also Jewish (his birth name was Cohen), was American, and Jewish actors Harold Gould and Harold J. Stone played German generals.
As a teenager, Werner Klemperer (Klink) fled Hitler’s Germany with his family in 1933. During the show’s production, he insisted that Hogan always win over his Nazi captors. He defended his playing a Luftwaffe Officer by claiming, “I am an actor. If I can play Richard III, I can play a Nazi.” Banner attempted to sum up the paradox of his role by saying, “Who can play Nazis better than us Jews?” Ironically, although Klemperer, Banner, Caine, Gould, and Askin play typecast World War II German types, all had actually served in the US Armed Forces during World War II — Banner and Askin in the US Army Air Corps, Caine in the US Navy, Gould with the US Army, and Klemperer in a US Army Entertainment Unit.
DON’T TELL LUC!
Vote:August 25th, 2011 at 8:50 am
He’d just use it to claom Jews are nazis anyway Elaycee.
Logic, reason, facts reality, all things that are like water off a ducks back to the modern anti-Semite.
Vote:August 25th, 2011 at 8:51 am
@Murray – Haha – very good.
Vote:August 25th, 2011 at 8:57 am
Speaking of Luc:
I’ve heard that he has just applied for a job at a circumcision clinic.
The pay isn’t that great but apparently he can keep the tips…
Vote:August 25th, 2011 at 9:40 am
I thought the ad was one of the best bits. I loved those flash units.
Vote:August 25th, 2011 at 10:29 am
They were wild.
Vote:August 25th, 2011 at 10:54 am
@ LAC
what is a “pre-war French internment camp”? Are you saying the French were rounding up Jews before the Vichy Govt came to power? I’ve never seen such enthusiasm in the French.
Vote:August 25th, 2011 at 11:11 am
haha cool! Even thou best part of 50 years old, still showing every day on TV on Comedy Central and is still very watchable compared to others of the same age – have it on mysky cant bring myself to delete it
Fun show.
Vote:August 25th, 2011 at 11:28 am
Apprently really expensive too. At least the seemed to be the essence of the message my father was delivering after an early version of laser tag was trialed in our darkened hallway.
No vision some parents.
Vote:August 25th, 2011 at 11:29 am
Insider if you go take a look at the french Third Republic and the Dreyfus Affair you’ll actually wonder why it was the germans and not the French who came up with death camps.
Vote:August 25th, 2011 at 11:42 am
@insider – just dug this up:
The most famous internment camps [in France] before World War II were used to receive the Republican refugees during the Spanish Civil War. These were interned mostly in the Roussillon Province, although internment camps were established in all of French territory, even in Brittany, in the north-west of France. These camps were located in Agde in the Hérault department (near Montpellier), Argelès-sur-Mer, between Perpignan and the border, Camp Gurs in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, which received Spanish refugees following the defeat of the Spanish Republic. These were distinguished by the French state into Brigadists, gudaris (Basque nationalists) who had escaped from the siege of Santander, pilots, and farmers.
Vote:August 25th, 2011 at 11:50 am
Askin was an Austrian Jew so maybe was interned when he arrived in France as a refugee.
Vote:August 25th, 2011 at 11:57 am
Indeed – Leon Askin’s family could not afford to send him to school full-time, so he studied acting at night school while working as a bookkeeper and salesman. He worked as an actor and director in Vienna and parlayed that into a steady work at the famous Louise Dumont Theater in Düsseldorf, Germany. Because of his ethnicity Askin was fired in 1933, and subsequently arrested and beaten.
He returned to Vienna, then fled to Paris in 1938 when the Nazis took Austria. His parents were imprisoned and killed in a Nazi concentration camp. In Paris, Askin was put into a French internment camp — not for being Jewish, but for being from Nazi-controlled Austria. He applied to emigrate to America, and arrived in New York in 1940, where the Austrian Leo Aschkenasy became the American Leon Askin and served in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
Vote:August 25th, 2011 at 12:37 pm
Luc could use the “tips” in dual purpose leather goods.
Initially the tips are fashioned into wallets………..and when Luc goes on holiday to the west bank or gaza he just strokes the wallet and it turns into a suitcase.
Vote:August 25th, 2011 at 1:51 pm
Luc could use them as rubber bands to fire stones at the Israeli border guards.
Let him annoy them ineffectually for a change.
Vote:August 25th, 2011 at 2:00 pm
Why on Earth would we do that?!
Vote:August 25th, 2011 at 2:09 pm
“Ignore the ad for the first minute.
Brings back great memories.”
It sure does. I’d forgotten I once had an Instamatic with the funny little flashcube. Many memories in the photos I took with it!
Vote:August 25th, 2011 at 2:28 pm
Slightly off topic…I have half a dozen DVD’s of black and white episodes of the Beverley Hillbillies….absolutely fantastic stuff….somehow cant see “Two and a half men” and the other current American “comedy” being still watchable in 50 years…
Vote:August 25th, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Helen always reminded me of Jane Hathaway David.
Vote:August 25th, 2011 at 2:40 pm
David
Vote:You need to bear in mind that for every Beverley Hillbillies and Hogan’s Heroes there would have been dozens of very lame comedies. Good comedy is still around, but nowadays the clutter is probably much worse.
August 25th, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Gilligans Island, Dustys Trail.
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