“Critic Judith Crist wondered if “World War Two is itself fair game for laughter” in the New York Herald Tribune...”
Late actor Robert Clary ( died almost 3 months ago ) of “Hogan’s Heroes” spent time in a Nazi concentration camp. Many people know that part. What is a little known fact about the show is that every actor in the show who played a major German character was Jewish.
Werner Klemperer (Col. Klonk) was a Christian. His father, conductor Otto, was born Jewish but converted to Christianity. Werner’s mother was Lutheran.
Leon Askin, who played General Burkhalter, was from Vienna, and fled to the US, and lived to the ripe old age of 97.