3 Hogan's Heroes stars were Jewish Holocaust survivors

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We got another great one from Netflix, the first 6 episodes of Hogans Heroes. I loved that show as a kid. I didn’t realize it was ever considered controversial.

Did you know that Werner Klemper (Col. Klink) was Jewish and had to escape Germany in 1933 because of Nazi persecution?

John Banner (Sgt Shultz) was born in Austria and fled the Nazis when he was 28 and was briefly in a Concentration camp before they started killing people methodically. His family was mostly wiped out by the Nazis.

Robert Clary (Corp LeBeau) was from France and spent time in Buchenwald and lost most of his family.

Bob Crane, the star, was raised Catholic, and was a sex addict and was brutally murdered in Arizona. The case was never solved.
 
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The death of Bob Crane is relatively recent, I recall that from the news when it occured. The rest, I’m not surprised about. I loved that show too when I was a kid!

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Klemperer

A “Halbjude” (half-Jew), Klemperer fled the Nazi regime with his family in 1933; they all made their way to Los Angeles, where his father obtained a conducting post. Klemperer began acting in high school and enrolled in acting courses in Pasadena before joining the United States Army to fight in World War II.

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Actor John Banner was forced out of his native Austria in 1938 when Hitler marched in. Though most familiar to filmgoers and TV viewers as a man of considerable heft, he was a trim 180 pounds when, while touring with an acting troupe in Switzerland, he found he couldn’t return to Austria because he was Jewish. Banner came to America as a refugee; though unable to speak a word of English, he was almost immediately hired as emcee for a musical revue, From Vienna, for which he had to learn all his lines phonetically. Picking up the language rapidly, Banner was cast in several films of the 1940s, starting with Pacific Blackout. Because of his accent and Teutonic features, he most often played Nazi spies – a grim task, in that Banner’s entire family in Austria was wiped out in the concentration camps.

robertclary.com/bio.html

Robert Clary was born in Paris, France, the youngest of 14 children. He began singing professionally at the age of 12. In 1942 Robert and 12 members of his immediate family were deported by the Nazis. Only Robert survived. When he returned to Paris, he was overjoyed to discover that some of his siblings had not been deported and had survived.
 
I believe that the concept for Hogan’s Heroes was taken from the great WWII drama, Stalag 17. The only character that made it into the TV series was Sgt. Schultz, who was played by a different actor in the movie. So they turned a dramatic movie into a sitcom!

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jacobaer said:
I believe that the concept for Hogan’s Heroes was taken from the great WWII drama, Stalag 17. The only character that made it into the TV series was Sgt. Schultz, who was played by a different actor in the movie. So they turned a dramatic movie into a sitcom!

Gene
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At best, Hogan’s Heroes was loosely based on Stalag 17 (great sitcom, great movie). The Schultz of S13 passed himself off as a buffoon, but it was just an act, unlike the HH Schultz who was the (un)real thing.

One major point of accuracy the movie had over the show: Officers and enlisted weren’t held in the same camps.
 
Also Jewish in the Hogan’s Heroes cast:

Leon Askin (Gen. Burkhalter: “Klink . . . shut up!”) was Austrian and also had to flee his homeland as the Nazis took over. He never minded kids on the street calling him by his character name. Much more of his fascinating life here. He died in 2005 at age 97.

Howard Caine (Maj. Hochstedder: “Vhat is this man doing here?!”) played such a convincing Gestapo officer that people wanted to know what part of Germany he was from. Actually, he was from Tennessee and played banjo during technical stoppages. In fact, he was a banjo master. Caine also served in the Navy during WWII. He died back in 1993.

And I faked myself out in Post 6. I meant S17, not S13.
 
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