Robert Clary was a young French Jew at the beginning of WWII. Of twelve members of his family deported, only he survived the camps. Ironically, he played LeBeau in Hogan's Heroes, an inmate in a Nazi prisoner of war camp. Klink and Schultz were also Jews, as was the show's producer.
General Burkhalter was too....lived to the ripe old age of 98.
I would watch Hogan’s Heroes every day after grade school.
My old man would wander in and watch for a few minutes. Then leave with a laugh and chuckle “Oh those crazy guys”. As a WW II vet I’m partly glad he left me in my innocence - but looking back I sure wish he had told me how things really were.
Although I AM still able to talk with my mom about those times. Interestingly, she did not have much information or knowledge of the Jewish Camps. Only what she saw when she was dragged to Schindler’s List and modern day remembrances. She said during the war and afterwards the plight of the Jews wasn’t in the papers much.