Posted on 07/12/2006 10:08:10 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher
But, compared to the Japanese camps, those in German camps DID have a fairly easy time.
Speaking strictly of POW camps, of course.
Man, talk about beating a dead horse; they're all hung up on a show from the 60s, mannnnnnnnnn!!!!!
Is this a joke?
No he couldn't. I was a big fan of HH as a kid and even then I knew that how things were depicted in a farsicle sit-com had no bearing on reality, for one thing it was obvious that if the German army were really that stupid the war would have been over in a month.
I think the films "Stalag 17" and "The Great Escape" had more to do with it. I mean, did anybody really take "Hogan's Heroes" seriously as an example of how the Germans ran the POW camps?
Hogan's Heroes was a classic comedy, and it cheered up many during some troubled times. Even the Germans loved it . . . so sorry to all those real POWs out there, but no regrets.
My first reaction, "Who would be that stupid?"
But then again, just looking at DU or the people out in the streets, I can only conclude that maybe it isn't such a bad idea.
Same with renaming Auschwitz.
Absolutely. All you need to do is compare survival rates.
The Germans usually treated Allied prisoners more or less properly.
Russian, Polish and other subhuman POWs were a different story entirely.
Don't forget the pinpoint accuracy of a stick of dynamite taped to an arrow.
In related news:
- The lives of lawyers in the real JAG corps aren't generally hair-raising
- Real cats don't talk
- Horses cannot run for hundreds of miles, 24 hours a day
- Real American women don't generally have a pool boy, let alone have sex with him on the deck.
Only weak-minded fools would believe such dribble...
Nothing to see here, move along...
Kill this thread now.
Klink, Berkhalder (sp), and Schultz were all played by Jews. And it was very difficult and heart-wrenching for them to play those parts.
I have spent alot of time researching this.
Give these brave, noble men some honor. Please stop this thread now.
One wonders on this: the attitude towards the Slavs was little better than that to Jews, etc. But the Germans actually considered themselves relatives of the Brits/French/US, could this be a leftover from when Kaiser Bill was King George's cousin?
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