He could have a fair point!
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To: Aussie Dasher
But, compared to the Japanese camps, those in German camps DID have a fairly easy time.
2 posted on
07/12/2006 10:10:07 AM PDT by
skeeter
To: Aussie Dasher
Man, talk about beating a dead horse; they're all hung up on a show from the 60s, mannnnnnnnnn!!!!!
To: Aussie Dasher
5 posted on
07/12/2006 10:13:14 AM PDT by
Lunatic Fringe
(Man Law: You Poke It, You Own It)
To: Aussie Dasher
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.
6 posted on
07/12/2006 10:13:26 AM PDT by
discostu
(you must be joking son, where did you get those shoes)
To: Aussie Dasher
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?
7 posted on
07/12/2006 10:14:09 AM PDT by
dfwgator
To: Aussie Dasher
"The Dukes of Hazard" taught me that Dodge Chargers have a max lift coefficient of 15.0 'ish.
8 posted on
07/12/2006 10:14:31 AM PDT by
avg_freeper
(Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
To: Aussie Dasher
9 posted on
07/12/2006 10:14:49 AM PDT by
gate2wire
To: Aussie Dasher
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.
10 posted on
07/12/2006 10:14:50 AM PDT by
1rudeboy
To: Aussie Dasher
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.
11 posted on
07/12/2006 10:14:58 AM PDT by
Killborn
(Pres. Bush isn't Pres. Reagan. Then again, Pres. Regan isn't Pres. Washington. God bless them all.)
To: Aussie Dasher
"I KNOW NOTHING"
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13 posted on
07/12/2006 10:15:53 AM PDT by
Vaquero
("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein(the moon is a harsh mistress))
To: Aussie Dasher
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.
16 posted on
07/12/2006 10:18:05 AM PDT by
Egon
(We are number one! All others are number two... or lower.)
To: Aussie Dasher
"(Australian) Veterans' Affairs Minister Bruce Billson said that thanks to Hollywood, those in German and Italian prison camps in World War II were wrongly perceived by many as having had a fairly easy time." Only weak-minded fools would believe such dribble...
Nothing to see here, move along...
17 posted on
07/12/2006 10:18:25 AM PDT by
EnigmaticAnomaly
("Conservatives protect Americans from terrorists. Liberals protect terrorists from Americans.")
To: Aussie Dasher
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.
To: Aussie Dasher
"HOGAAAAAN!"
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19 posted on
07/12/2006 10:19:48 AM PDT by
Vaquero
("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein(the moon is a harsh mistress))
To: Aussie Dasher
Bob Crain got alot out of the show. Gave him the opportunity to "pick-up" women all over the place, make home made porn, and get his brains bashed in.
23 posted on
07/12/2006 10:21:32 AM PDT by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: Aussie Dasher
What part of FICTION do folks not seem to understand?
24 posted on
07/12/2006 10:21:32 AM PDT by
mtbopfuyn
(I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
To: Aussie Dasher
He just gets to it, oh I don't know, say 40 years too late?
I can't see HH driving much opinion or public attitude, given it had little such effect when it was famously running on CBS (I know I never missed an episode). I do remember TV Guide actually running cautionary articles just before the series premiered, raising exactly the point this article does.
But when the series came out, and it was clearly meant as social satire masked as a war comedy, all that went by the board. And nobody took it seriously, everyone kicked back and laughed their tucheses off.
26 posted on
07/12/2006 10:23:07 AM PDT by
BelegStrongbow
(www.stjosephssanford.org)
To: Aussie Dasher
Oh please. In the TV show, Hogan and his men had a fully equipped war room under their barracks, complete with state of the art (for the time) radios and other electronics. They had nicely finished escape tunnels that could take them to any point in Germany, that would have taken hundreds of man-years to construct. And that's just scratching the surface.
I don't take anything away from ther men who spent time in the German POW camps, but Hogan's Heroes was so far removed from reality that you would have to be pretty stupid to believe this was how life really was for them, and to say that the show does POWs a disservice is just insulting. It's like saying that science is harmed when the Professor on Gilligan's Island builds a nuclear reactor out of the guts of the transistor radio and couple of coconut shells.
28 posted on
07/12/2006 10:23:34 AM PDT by
CFC__VRWC
(AIDS, abortion, euthanasia - Don't liberals just kill ya?)
To: Aussie Dasher
I don't know about Hogan's Heroes but one TV series purporting to be about Vietnam--China Beach--was a total farce. It depicted beautiful nurses and soldiers living in plush barracks in DaNang. It wasn't supposed to be a comedy but it definitely was a farce.
36 posted on
07/12/2006 10:29:35 AM PDT by
Brad from Tennessee
(Anything a politician gives you he has first stolen from you)
To: Aussie Dasher
Oh good grief. It was a Hollywood fantasy comedy. Even when Hollywood tries to depict war realistically (which they weren't here) they get a lot wrong. Who would take Hogan's Heroes seriously?. But then, I suppose someone thought the Beverly Hillbillies or Gilligan's Island were realistic. Sheesh.
BTW, we recently bought the DVD set for the first two seasons. It's still really funny.
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