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.
It's from a Bing Crosby Christmas special in the 60s. I don't know the specific date.
Run time is 2:27.
Robert Clary is still with us. He survived the Holocaust in part because the Germans liked his singing.
thanks
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!
Klink and Schultz. Both Jewish. Amazingly (by today’s terms) singing a Christmas carol.
In his time, Werner Klemperer was like the coolest guy, ever.
I miss the 70s. My salad days.
I read Robert Clary’s memoir and then sent it to my FRiend Laz.
So were most of the actors playing the main German characters in that show.
several of the actors in Hogan’s Heroes were Jews who had been in concentration camps...Robert Clary was one of them...
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.
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.
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.
Thank you for sharing.
Sadly you are right.
Hogan's Heroes was produced by Bing Crosby Productions.
-PJ
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.
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Ping for later watching. Always loved the heroes.
(and Helga/Hilda, of course)
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