Posted on 08/14/2018 8:21:22 PM PDT by SamAdams76
That’s why I appreciated my old man - for letting me be a kid. Maybe at the age of ten (or whatever) I wouldn’t have spoiled it for my kids. I do know that I started pretty early on in teaching them the ways of the real world.
I find that opening, and especially the music, to be incredibly haunting. I have the whole series on DVD.
It’s on every night on MeTv.
Kids should know the real world. I agree.
But I’d say if you’re using tv, wait until the show backs up the real world, rather than some sitcom. I recall watching Bob Hope entertain the troops in Vietnam.
I asked about it. Who are those men? What is that? (Bombs heard in the background) that’s when I was given age appropriate answers. Real world answers.
I know - but I would have used the horrors of the concentration camps as an example of how bad the NAZIs were - and not the goofy characters as shown in the show.
Now that I recall - my kids did know about the camps quite a few years before their classmates. One of them wanted the Diary of Anne Frank, and then the others read it. She got in arguments with other kids that didn’t believe her when she discussed it at school. I’m guessing about fourth grade. So probably a similar age as I was while watching Hogan’s Heroes!
My favorite bit is how whenever Klink gets into trouble Hogan always finds a way to pin it on Burkhalter so he will clean it up lest he get sent to the Russian Front.
Baby Boomers went from hating WWII vets to calling them “The Greatest Generation”. Real WWII vets weren’t such simpletons. They knew war sucked & they were fighting human beings. The pop culture of their day mocked the bureaucracy of the military and especially “The Brass”. They didn’t strut around like McCain, waiting to be worshipped as “heroes”. There was no obligatory “Thank you for your service!” They did their jobs & came home. They knew most Germans were not NAZIs, they were just guys like Schulz & Klink who didn’t want to be there any more than we did. Today, a lot of us don’t understand that. HOGAN’s HEROES was probably more realistic than the stuff they are making today.
Major Hochstetter played by Howard Caine was my favorite. The best episode IMHO was the Nimrod episode, when Hochstetter gets duped into thinking Colonel Klink is a British agent.
It was interesting to find out that the original premise for the show was to have it based on an American prison in which the prisoners would outwit the prison warden and guards while allowing inmates to escape.
I can see why they didn't think that concept would go over very well with the American public.
Regards,
I'm just grateful I was a child in the days a child could be a child.
Holy schnikes, the dude lived to be 98!
Not all of them are dead. Robert Clary who played Corporal LeBeau is still alive. Born in 1926, he was an actual inmate of the nazi concentration camps.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Clary
Actually, the producers plagiarized from the movie Stalag 17. A lot
And his 300+ lbs didn't get in the way of it. Good genes.
We knew nothing. Nothing!
During my readings of WW2, a common theme was Stalin badgering Churchill to open a Second Front because he felt that Russia was fighting the Germans all by themselves. But from winter of 1941 on, those Russians were chewing the Germans up inch by inch.
Invading Russia was probably the biggest mistake Hitler made.
Suzanne Sommers had anothet TV series after “Three’s Company,” namely, “She’s The Sheriff.”
When I lived in California years ago, I remember seeing her do a TV commercial with her real-life father, from San Bruno, Calif., their real-life hometown just south of San Francisco. I forget what the commercial was pitching.
You’re right about the thigh-master....between that and her many health books, she has a net worth of about $100 million.
Suzzanne recently went public as an enthusiastic Trump supporter.
He was the hardcore, Nazi SS guy. And he was treated as a bad guy on the show. They were sophisticated enough to know the difference between Nazis & German soldiers. That is lost on today's SJWs.
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