I wonder how our parents thought about it...or the people that were slaughtered in the gas chambers...
but I watched it too....and it was funny..
IIRC, Werner Klemperer’s dad Otto (a symphony conductor), nearly disowned his son over that TV role - until he saw that it was a total mockery of the Nazis.
Neither of my Dad's older brothers served in WW2 because one was 35 when the war started and the other lost an eye as a kid so couldn't serve.My Dad helped design and build missiles for the Navy during the war and so was exempted as an "essential civilian employee".
As a result there were in our households,unlike in most during the 50's and 60's,no war stories told.So I was particularly naive regarding the war.It never occurred to me that it might be controversial or hurtful.
If it had I might not have liked HH as much as I did.I can see how some in this country wouldn't have liked it at all.
POW camps and concentration camps are not the same thing.
I wonder how our parents thought about it...or the people that were slaughtered in the gas chambers...
but I watched it too....and it was funny..
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My dad who was in the European theater, didn’t watch it. He didn’t object. Just said it was to silly.