Posted on 12/24/2024 12:36:15 AM PST by SaveFerris
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When I saw the first name I knew who it was - I guess I had forgotten the name of the second guy
I was searching for a Chicago song - turned out to be "Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!" - I love that song and then this one popped up - I'd never seen it and I think some of you might enjoy it
While the lunatics want World War III - may there be Peace on Earth and avoidance of unnecessary war
Forgive the title of the Youtube channel I found (oops)
I find it quite interesting that all three men, Werner Klemperer, John Banner and Robert Clary (aka Col. Klink, Sargeant Schultz, and Corporal Louis LeBeau) are all Jewish and had no objections to singing Christmas carols.
Wow!!
All of the “Germans” on Hogan’s Heroes were played by Jewish actors.
I read that John Banner was born in Austria but moved to America when Hitler rose to power.
Mr. Banner joined the American Armed Forces and was a Supply Sergeant before becoming an actor. It said his last appearance was on an episode of “The Partridge Family”
I guess that’s an E-6 designation above an E-5 Sergeant? (one result shows it as E-6)
Been too long since I worked for the Marine Corps - IIRC E-6 was Staff Sergeant, E-5 Sergeant, E-7 Gunnery Sergeant
Really? Wow!
Leon Askin, who played General Burkhalter, fled Austria to the United States in 1940, after having been beaten and abused by the Nazi SA and SS. His parents were murdered in the Treblinka death camp. He then served in World War II as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Forces.
He lived to the age of 97.
[Leon Askin]
I had just looked him up in the past week and saw that 97.
WOW!!
Yep. The actors who played Gestapo Major Hochstetter and Luftwaffe General Burkhalter were both Jewish.
[Gestapo Major Hochstetter]
Howard Caine was born on January 2, 1926, in Nashville, Tennessee, into a Jewish family. At the age of 13, Cohen moved with his family to New York City, where he began studying acting. He served in the United States Navy during World War II, from 1944 to 1946, fighting the Japanese in the Pacific Theatre.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Caine
Great line-up. Thanks!
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What a coincidence that you posted! Mr sneakers and I watched that show last night! We were watching old Christmas shows and that was one of them. Reading through the comments, I have a new appreciation for the actors on Hogan’s Heroes. I remember watching that show as a kid.
Clary was in a Nazi concentration camp in WW2.
Early years
Banner was born January 28, 1910[2] to Jewish parents in Stanislau, Austria-Hungary (now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine). He studied for a law degree at the University of Vienna, but decided instead to become an actor.[3] In 1938, when he was performing with an acting troupe in Switzerland, Adolf Hitler annexed Austria to Nazi Germany. Banner emigrated to the United States, where he rapidly learned English.
World War II
In 1942, Banner enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps, underwent basic training in Atlantic City and became a supply sergeant.[3][4] He even posed for a recruiting poster.[4] He served until 1945.[1]
According to fellow Hogan’s Heroes actor Robert Clary, who was a Holocaust survivor himself, “John lost a lot of his family” to the Holocaust.[5]
Cool!
Very cool. Thx for posting and a VERY Merry Christmas, to you.
Thank you for this.
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Merry Christmas ⛄🎁🎁 🎄🎄🎄🌲🌲🌲🛷🦌🦌 guys
As soon as I saw the title I had to watch it 🦌
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