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To: EvilCapitalist

Ha! I found it interesting that the actors who played Col. Klink (Hogan’s Heroes) and Maj. Strasser (Casablanca) were both Jewish whose families escaped Nazi persecution. I would think it’d be hard to play those roles as Jews but maybe it was cathartic in other ways?


10 posted on 05/16/2023 9:28:07 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: NohSpinZone

One of the inside jokes about Hogan’s Heroes is just how many Nazis were parodied by Jewish actors. Which itself was a wry joke!

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hogan%27s+heroes+jewish


16 posted on 05/16/2023 9:58:16 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: NohSpinZone

Werner Klemperer’s father was Otto Klemperer a famous German symphony conductor who fled Nazi Germany.


24 posted on 05/16/2023 11:02:36 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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