I also liked to watch the show as a kid but never around my mom who had been in a concentration camp in Austria. She hated the show. She simply could not stand to see Germans portrayed with any human quality especially humor.
Every day after school I’d get to watch Gilligan’s Island and Hogan’s Heroes. My old man would come in to do something and watch for a while. When he’d leave he would always chuckle and say “what a crazy show” or “those crazy guys”. Only until I was older did I realize what he, a WWII vet, had going through his head as he watched the show with me.