Posted on 07/12/2006 10:08:10 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher
"Screw you."
Thank you! :-) Have a nice day in a country where you can't walk down the street chewing bubble gum.
Will the families of the million German soldiers who died in Soviet death camps get compensation?
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.
And Robert Clary (Cpl. Louis LeBeau) was interred in a Nazi Concentration camp. He was the only survivor of his entire family.
I have read more than one interview from each of these men. It seems that all decided to take on these Hogan's Heroes roles as a positive thing. It gave each of them a chance to kill the boogeyman of Nazism for their own selves. And others still suffering nightmares from that era.
You have no clue, dude. One who comes to Asia and knows it, understands that the cleaner everything seems on the surface, the more decadent it is below.
I didn't like your little juvenile cheap shot at Bob Crane, and I voiced my opinion (maybe too emphatically ;-(
How about 'Le Grande Illusion'? Great movie but I don't think the people who ran the German POW camps were effete aristrocrats.
Who ist dis man and vat ist going on here on dis thread!!??
I'm sorry, but Hogan's Heroes was one of my favorites and it always will be I have the first three seasons on DVD and I am going to collect the rest as soon as they are available.
His B-17 was shot down, and he had a bad parachute landing - broke both knees. They got caught, and were part of the infamous "Sagan Death March". He spent 18 months in a POW camp. Went in weighing 180, came out weighing 120. This was toward the end of the war, and he said that the Germans barely had enough food for themselves. He had no bitterness whatsoever.
I worked for a civil engineering firm in Boston for 4 years during the late sixties and early seventies. It was a summer and college vacation job. Anyway, the two owners were a couple of Germans named Fritz Gruber and Fritz Peterson. They had been captured during the war and sent to POW camp in Massachusetts. During their time in the US, they were given the opportunity to earn engineering degrees from Boston University. They stayed on in the US after the war and became citizens. After getting additional education and experience, they started up their own company, Boston Survey Consultants. Not a bad outcome for Fritz and Fritz. They were actually nice guys and made good citizens. Not to mention that my job with their company put me through college.
It's one of my favourites, too - along with Get Smart and F-Troop.
Really is a small world.
Yes and I believe that all of his family died in concentration camps.
Damn! I guess the summer between my junior and senior year of college was just a dream. Albeit wet.
If I recall correctly John Banner [Sgt. Shultz] was on a WWI recruiting poster.
As someone who has lived most of his life in and around the city, this has always made me laugh. Remember "reporter" Lois Lane's PENTHOUSE on Central Park? Even back in the 70s, she would have been lucky to live in a fifth floor walkup near Columbia, or in Brooklyn. In my poor student days in the Bronx, I never understood how the "Friends" could live in such swank accomodations. Believe it or not, Seinfeld's rather humble place was appropriate for a journeyman standup comedian (albeit not for the multimillionaire Jerry would become).
16. When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English to each other.
True when said foreigners are from different countries. I once sat in a meeting in France with two Israelis, a Spaniard, and a German. We conversed in, you guessed it, English.
I agree. I had a good friend and neighbor when I lived in Cincinnati. He was a bomber pilot who along with his crew was shot down off the coast of France. He didn't tell a lot about his time but he did tell me that he was tortured by the Nazi's at a camp in France. He also suffered life long nightmares and other stress related problems due to the way he was treated.
I agree, but you only deal with the rational ones.
Ah, Major Hochstetter. Howard Caine had the best role in the series, the small yet menacing Gestapo officer who spewed threats left and right ("Heads vill ROLL, Klink"). Angry, ineffectual, and just plain brilliant.
Caine passed away not long ago; I recall a thread here where he was discussed. Born in Nashville, he was an accomplished folk musician and won dozens of awards for fiddle and 5-string banjo. A southern, banjo-playing Jew - wearing a gestapo uniform! Not even Spock would've dared to estimate the odds of *that* happening.
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