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Werner Klemperer and John Banner sing Silent night Robert Clary sings a French Carol
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Posted on 12/17/2020 8:27:58 AM PST by ealgeone

If you love Hogans Heros, this is a gem. Werner Klemperer (Col Klink) and John Banner (Sgt Schultz) sing Silent night in their native language. Then Robert Clary (Corp Louis LeBeau) sings a French Carol.


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Religion
KEYWORDS: christmas; hogansheroes; klink; music; schultz
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Fans of Hogan's Heroes and just plain ol' decency might enjoy this little Christmas nugget.

It's from a Bing Crosby Christmas special in the 60s. I don't know the specific date.

Run time is 2:27.

1 posted on 12/17/2020 8:27:58 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone

Robert Clary is still with us. He survived the Holocaust in part because the Germans liked his singing.


2 posted on 12/17/2020 8:29:32 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: ealgeone

thanks


3 posted on 12/17/2020 8:33:21 AM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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That video is like a time machine - Bing Crosby introducing part of the cast of Hogan’s Heroes! I was too young in the 60s, so Its back to the 1970s for me!


4 posted on 12/17/2020 8:33:57 AM PST by PGR88
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To: ClearCase_guy

Klink and Schultz. Both Jewish. Amazingly (by today’s terms) singing a Christmas carol.


5 posted on 12/17/2020 8:34:08 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: ealgeone

In his time, Werner Klemperer was like the coolest guy, ever.


6 posted on 12/17/2020 8:34:47 AM PST by OKSooner (This right here is how to do a paragraph break. ==> <p>)
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To: PGR88

I miss the 70s. My salad days.


7 posted on 12/17/2020 8:34:50 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: ClearCase_guy; Lazamataz

I read Robert Clary’s memoir and then sent it to my FRiend Laz.


8 posted on 12/17/2020 8:35:07 AM PST by Tax-chick (I've got your worldwide wave of madness right here. Cthulhu Fhtagn!)
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To: Vaquero
Klink and Schultz. Both Jewish.

So were most of the actors playing the main German characters in that show.

9 posted on 12/17/2020 8:35:23 AM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021)
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several of the actors in Hogan’s Heroes were Jews who had been in concentration camps...Robert Clary was one of them...


10 posted on 12/17/2020 8:35:36 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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It is quite interesting, for those of you with an interest in sociology, to recall that in 1962, with million of living actual Nazis, we had Hogans Heroes, and in 2020, when the youngest living NSDAP member would be 93 years old, and when virtually all of them are dead, we have Nazi panic everywhere.


11 posted on 12/17/2020 8:38:26 AM PST by Jim Noble (Lo there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning)
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To: ealgeone

Interesting to hear it in German and French.

After school Hogan’s Hero’s was my favorite.

My old man would come into the den where I was watching. He would change his socks and lay them down by the heating vent, put dry socks on and then his shoes.

He would wait until the next commercial. Leaving the room he would ALWAYS say “Oh those crazy guys!”
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He was a WW II vet.


12 posted on 12/17/2020 8:40:06 AM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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At one time I was bothered by the farcical comedy of the show in light of the horrors of the war, but then learned that most of the actors were Jewish and connected in some way with the Holocaust. Their goal was to show the stupidity of the Nazis and to mock Hitler. Robert Clary was a prisoner at Buchenwald, a lot of John Banner’s family was killed, etc.

Now I watch the show in reruns with that understanding, and it’s terribly funny.


13 posted on 12/17/2020 8:41:09 AM PST by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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Werner’s father:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Klemperer


14 posted on 12/17/2020 8:42:20 AM PST by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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To: ealgeone

Thank you for sharing.


15 posted on 12/17/2020 8:42:30 AM PST by Dacula
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To: Jim Noble

Sadly you are right.


16 posted on 12/17/2020 8:44:17 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: PGR88
Bing Crosby introducing part of the cast of Hogan’s Heroes!

Hogan's Heroes was produced by Bing Crosby Productions.

-PJ

17 posted on 12/17/2020 8:47:39 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: ealgeone

Thank you for posting this. Seen it before quite some time ago. Had forgotten about it. Hogan’s Heroes is on Spectrum 5 nights from 10 to 11 PM.


18 posted on 12/17/2020 8:47:58 AM PST by ocrp1982
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To: ealgeone

Bookmark


19 posted on 12/17/2020 8:55:56 AM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: ealgeone

Ping for later watching. Always loved the heroes.

(and Helga/Hilda, of course)


20 posted on 12/17/2020 9:09:19 AM PST by Kommodor (Make America Detroit Again - Vote Democrat! :P)
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