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!!