I have seen him in westerns playing serious roles several times, one time he had a beard and a hat on and I didn't even recognize him, but one episode with paladin on Have Gun Will Travel was very funny
I watch most of the films when the were on Television in the fifties. While my friends collected pictures of cars or aircraft I collected pictures of submarines. I joined the Navy in 62. I eventually was on USS Cropper, Simon Bolivar, Thomas Edison. Memphis and San Francisco. All of submarines have been decommissioned. I still love the Submarine Service. The men I served with were some of the finest in the world.
The sail for the Edison and the George Washington were in Puget Sound drydock back in mid 1990s, The GWs sail was picked out of that drydock and now on display at Nautilus Museum. The Thomas Edison Sail... who knows if saved.
As an American retired service member who grew up watching Hogan's Heros as a child, I'm so happy to see that Werner Klemperer was allowed the opportunity to actually step into the role of of German officer in this great military series from the 50"s.. He was not a Nazi! Mr.Klemper made fun of the Nazis. He expressed his disdain for the Nazi party in his role on Hogan's Heroes,
That is Werner Klemperer (Col. Klink) I remember watching this series, Uncommon Valor. and Navy Log. America still loved our military back in the fifties.
Klemperer is quite older and probably more sophisticated than Prien. Prien was pretty smart and gutsy but he didn't live through the war. A very interesting series and this is what TV used to be---educational.
Yes, the Germans were our enemy during WWI and WWII, but these men of Germany's Silent Service suffered the most losses of any branch of the military and they never failed to do their best no matter the odds. The attack on Scapa Flow (regardless of the fact that their only victory was a WWI Dreadnought battleship), was a show of expert control, bravery, and the best show of seamanship that I've ever seen. Nowadays we don't see the Germans as enemies, they are our friends, but Captain Gunther Prien was an icon in WWII, and his memory and achievements still come to mind to this day.
The Silent Service series was an excellent representation of what WWII submariners went through and it doesn't show just our side's victories, it shows victories by submariners of all nationalities. I wish we had a series like this nowadays so we can educate our youth on what war was like in those days.
As far as I know, smoking was actually prohibited in German subs, unlike in the US subs. The German VII's were much much smaller and had no air condition to speak of.
I have the book that Prien wrote about his life and this mission. It was consider a sucide mission but they managed to pull it of and after that he wrote the book, But with some things leftout of course. (but there is a corrected chapter in it now) He was a hero back in Germany and the book sold alot ofcourse. To bad he died later in the war.
I read this story when I was still in Sub School. As I understood it, he came up a small river in to Scapa Flow. Still an amazing maneuver which only could have been done in the early stages of the war.
Both the American and German navies started WWII with torpedoes that malfunctioned / misfired - a lot . The Germans quickly found who-what-why was responsible, fixed the issue, put people in jail, and started sinking ships. The Americans stood round in groups and pointed at the others. Sometimes you have to kick butt and take names.
Prien's IWO was not a Heinz, it was Englebert Endrass (Erich Topp's best friend) who went on to Command his own boat. He was a very successful Skipper in his own right and was lost with all hands in the Atlantic, later in the war. Damn these men were tough.
countrysamurai They had to be, from skipper to the lowest seaman. Submarine life was hard and while easier today remains difficult duty and all submariners are volunteers. Good comment.
Until Hogan's Heroes a pretty much unknown Werner Klemperer played character actors in a long list of mostly dramas. Most notable is a 1961 docu-drama where he played Adolph Eichman in one about the Isrealis capture of the notorious Nazi General. There is one made in the mid-50s I saw years ago where he played part of an American Air Force cargo plane pilot group, speaking a straight American dialect with no accent. I can't find it in his filmography, most likely because his name had been Americanized in the credits. Silent Service was one of a number of weekly WWII & military shows that were a staple of early TV when I was a young boy in the 1950s. I watched all of them.
Also, you may recall that Klemperer had a supporting role in "Judgment at Nuremberg" (1961), starring Spencer Tracy and Richard Widmark (Klemperer played one of the defendants on trial). He appeared on at least one episode of "Perry Mason" starring Raymond Burr.
@@williamschall9124 Klemperer was Jewish, but not Viennese, he was German. Leon Askin who played Burkhalter in Hogan's Heroes was Austrian though, maybe from Vienna...not sure.
**His 'luck' ran out...that's all...service in a submarine was always dangerous, that's why all the men were volunteers...the slightest mistake or miscalculation could doom a ship in seconds, and yet they gave their best efforts towards sinking enemy ships at every turn...even when doing so seemed suicidal to attempt** 36,000 men were in the 'U-Boot' service...only 6,000 were left by May of '45.
@@gerrynightingale9045 Sorry to hear that. Sometimes YT uh... seems to work in mysterious ways. (You might want to check your Channel's Discussion section to see what's there)
@@emansnas *I'm not 'fighting a battle' with 'Tube...it's more a question of "What constitutes 'Censorship' as opposed to shutting-down 'Hate Channels' as being the 'right thing to do'* ( *The 'Rittenhouse' case makes me nauseous with the unending 'story' of this idiot-child's 'Adventures'* ) *Something is seriously wrong with America that has nothing to do with the Pandemic virus* *The fact that tRump had 75-million votes in the Election makes everything 'meaningless and hopeless' to me...like watching books being burned* ( *The fact that the media 'pandered and catered' to an 'ass-hat clown' EVERY MINUTE OF THE NIGHT AND DAY is responsible for the acidic erosion of everything 'right and good' in America* ) *It means millions of people are actually just as stupid and hateful as I thought they were and secretly hoping I'm wrong and "It just can't happen"*
They forgot to mention that after this attack Churchill had them build causeways to block the attack route used and provide a road link between the islands. They're still there. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill_Barriers Also it was later found that the sub the HMS Wolverine attacked was actually the UA and it didn't sink. It's unknown what actually happened to U-47.
I believe that was the USS Chopper! She was in crisis going down vertically. If memory serves, her stern was 900’ below the surface, her bow was below 600’. Her test depth was approx 340’. An amazing boat, full of amazing crew.
The Kriegsmarine didnt use the "Heil" salute hardly ever. Especially not with Doenitz. It was hant used in the Wehrmacht until after the military was required to take the oath after the attempt on the Führer's life by Stauffenberg. Prien would not survive the war unfortunately. After this I feel like he deserved to live.
It is only recently that everybody in a submarine was forbidden to smoke while the boat was underwater due to the amount of pollution it created and the oxygen used to do so. Air conditioners and very good filters and scrubbers for use underwater were unknown. A few other mistakes made making this film but then many other USA films made or adapted about WWII contained much BS because they were taught they saved us, the British, and other Allies, and won the war forgetting what other Allied forces did, although it was a close call. Also, do not forget that the atomic bombs used by the USA word not have worked if the British had not given them the vacuum Megatron, amongst other things. 'nuf sed. ex-RN
I wonder what happened to the men on the radio boat...? Were they left to drift,picked up by the u-boat or machined gunned down right there? Must be in the report of the U-boat....if it was ever found/recovered.
The rumours of crews machine-gunning survivors owed more to allied propaganda departments but have persisted. There was only one documented instance of U-boats machine-gunning survivors in WW2. The captain (and the ships doctor who also took part) of that boat was hanged after the war. The incident was totally condemned by The Kriegsmarine and allied navies alike. It was more normal, certainly at the start of the war for the U- Boat crews to wish the crews in the lifeboats good luck, though they were forbidden to take on survivors. 75% of these U-boat crews did not come home, the highest attrition rate of any service, ever. Boys, just like ours conscripted and given no choice. Awful way to die.
***** Well yea, I'd say you are a little..are saying Klink (Werner Klemperer as Prein in this vid) was not a prisoner of war boss on Hogan's Heroes..??
@Jacob Zondag No, don't forget, " I did not have sexual relations with that woman"!!!! So funny. All the Rain and Muslim world stopped and noted what the American people wanted, even it's women!! Hard to ever recover any respect after it's thrown away!!!!!!
Knowing a little about Werner, I'm surprised at this part. To recap, he happened to be out of Germany on an acting tour when the war began and he escaped. His family all lost their lives. When he agreed to do Hogan's heroes in 1965, it was only on the condition that Klink be an idiot so he could make fun of the Nazis. This serious part in 1958, less than 7 years earlier seems strangely at odds with the Kilnk character ????
If he played the part of Prien as an idiot, then how could American naval men learn anything from him? But he still played him as if he was a Nazi robot, not a warm, feeling human being. And another thing....that story about his family all being killed was bullshit. His family all moved to America long before the war, in 1935, he didn't "escape". He's full of shit.
I don't know where you got this story. His father Otto Klemperer emigrated to the U.S. in 1935 when Werner was 15. His father was music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and that was where Werner attended high school before studying acting at the Pasadena Playhouse. He joined the US Army Special Services and spent the war entertaining troops in the Pacific theatre
Bullshit. His father brought the whole family to America as German Jewish immigrants in the '30s when Werner was a child. He told the story on the Tonight Show to Johnny. You're not so wise Freddy. Stick to Bedrock.
Interesting to note that Doernitz was NOT a Nazi--and in this episode he did not return the Nazi salute, but rather merely shook hands with Prien/Klemperer. Hammer
You got that right. The Japanese Type 93 ("Long Lance") torpedo was the best torpedo of any navy in the world. High-speed, long-range, 1,000-pound warhead, left no wake--it caused the USN enormous trouble in the Pacific war.
Colonel Klink AND The Professor from Gilligans Island as his first officer Heinz. Both served in the US Army in WWII. Werner Klemperer as an entertainer in the Special Services. Russell Johnson was a highly decorated bomardier on B-25s in the Pacific, earning a Purple Heart and the Air medal with 44 missions. Correction: The 1st officer is probably Kurt Krueger, not Russell Johnson. I'm leaving Johnson's info here because it's interesting regardless.
@Chris Longski Read my whole post Chris. Filmographies are sometimes incomplete. I have seen several filmographies that are missing roles. Mostly with the series from the 50s and early 60s.
Submarines don't control the seas like a capital ship does, but the very suspicion that an enemy submarine is operating in an area can deny the use of the seas to the enemy, too afraid to set sail.
Werner Klemperer, (Col. Klink of Hogan's Hero's) played Gunter Preen. Didn't recognize him with a full head of hair but his voice was unmistakable. Ironically, Klemperer was Jewish. Great show.
Wollen sie Amerikanishe zigaretten. Only the "good" stuff!!! Notice the airplane flying over the "Royal Oak" when hit by the first torpedo! During the second torpedo run one can see the same airplane flying over the torpedoed ship.
my first name is John, i served in the Royal Navy but everyone called me Jjm, that name has stuck with me, gets confusing when I visit my family from Scotland where i was born and my sister and nephews who live in Nottingham where I was brought up, I myself live in Plymouth
This is normal for a war movie. NOTHING, absolutely nothing conforms to the facts or to historical reality. In the moment the jack-offs start with their nazi-shit, is when it starts going down hill.
You might be interested in this movie: ruclips.net/video/fYyaCNirDV0/видео.html That's a German movie about the Scapa Flow raid from the 1950s. It's the only u-boat movie out there which was filmed on an actual type VII boat (U-573, which was still afloat at the time of filming). The subtitles have a few mistakes, but are mostly okay.
The correct address of a U-boat commandant should be "Herr Kaleun" or "Herr Kaleu", since his rank was that of a "Kapitaenleutnant" (lieutenant commander), the lowest rank which would be entrusted with the command of a small naval vessel, like a U-boat.
maybe I learned my German uboat history wrong, gross admiral doenitz was not an admiral yet but a commodore when prien was called about scapa flow mission.
Three or four hands on the deck of that picket ship with BAR's and/or a .50 BMG would have taken out at least a few jerrys for their trouble. Nowadays an RPG, better yet. OORAH!
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Nice to see Werner Klemperer acting in an intelligent role.
😂😂ikr
I have seen him in westerns playing serious roles several times, one time he had a beard and a hat on and I didn't even recognize him, but one episode with paladin on Have Gun Will Travel was very funny
He was also in an episode of the show One Step Beyond about a haunted U Boat.
And hair 😂😆😂
I watch most of the films when the were on Television in the fifties. While my friends collected pictures of cars or aircraft I collected pictures of submarines. I joined the Navy in 62. I eventually was on USS Cropper, Simon Bolivar, Thomas Edison. Memphis and San Francisco. All of submarines have been decommissioned. I still love the Submarine Service. The men I served with were some of the finest in the world.
You might enjoy visiting the Naval museum in Buffalo N.Y. The Croaker is there.
The sail for the Edison and the George Washington were in Puget Sound drydock back in mid 1990s, The GWs sail was picked out of that drydock and now on display at Nautilus Museum. The Thomas Edison Sail... who knows if saved.
As an American retired service member who grew up watching Hogan's Heros as a child, I'm so happy to see that Werner Klemperer was allowed the opportunity to actually step into the role of of German officer in this great military series from the 50"s.. He was not a Nazi! Mr.Klemper made fun of the Nazis. He expressed his disdain for the Nazi party in his role on Hogan's Heroes,
He was Jewish. Kinda hard to be a natzi.
one of us one of them
He certainly wasn't. His family emigrated to avoid the persecution (or, eventually a one way trip to Treblinka) they suffered in nazi Germany.
He had a ton of serious roles before Hogan´s Heroes. He was always a well respected character actor.
He was also an accomplished classical musician and orchestra conductor.
Gunther Prien did a remarkable job in penetrating the British defences in Scapa Flow.
my uncle was a sailor on the Royal Oak. Ended up in the freezing sea at night in his pajamas.....survived.
Anand Mukunda. Good for him, he has been lucky. Waters of Scottland are less warm than whisky.
Looks like Billy Graham? Damn I love these 1950s production values man, I could watch old black & white movies all day long. . .
*Too
on that successful night gunther phrien became my uncle!
The sick part is this post has 47 likes.
U-47...
That is Werner Klemperer (Col. Klink) I remember watching this series, Uncommon Valor. and Navy Log. America still loved our military back in the fifties.
the men of annapolis was an interesting show as was the west point academy show....watch leave it to beaver...totally wholesome!
Ed McDowell I believe we still do.
Military men are amazing...the bravest do not always follow orders, but live for each other!
+Gregory Nasrallah Not since the communists and socialists took over the colleges and universities.
US Government has done a great job of making the middle class working people 100 percent expendable...time to execute the EOP members!
Klemperer is quite older and probably more sophisticated than Prien. Prien was pretty smart and gutsy but he didn't live through the war. A very interesting series and this is what TV used to be---educational.
Way to much non-sence on TV these days
U- 47 had a cartoon cow painted on the conning tower. She had torpedoes spitting out her mouth and rear end.
Yes, the Germans were our enemy during WWI and WWII, but these men of Germany's Silent Service suffered the most losses of any branch of the military and they never failed to do their best no matter the odds. The attack on Scapa Flow (regardless of the fact that their only victory was a WWI Dreadnought battleship), was a show of expert control, bravery, and the best show of seamanship that I've ever seen. Nowadays we don't see the Germans as enemies, they are our friends, but Captain Gunther Prien was an icon in WWII, and his memory and achievements still come to mind to this day.
Great series...thanks for posting these episodes.
10:24 "If there's one thing I live by, it is not to trust the intelligence of others"
Col Klink never spoke any truer words than those. BTW, Werner played a German Commander in several of these episodes.
The Silent Service series was an excellent representation of what WWII submariners went through and it doesn't show just our side's victories, it shows victories by submariners of all nationalities. I wish we had a series like this nowadays so we can educate our youth on what war was like in those days.
As far as I know, smoking was actually prohibited in German subs, unlike in the US subs. The German VII's were much much smaller and had no air condition to speak of.
Wahjheit
Wahlheit
Smoking was allowed on German U-Boats when only on the surface and on deck during the day! At night a lit cigarette could be spotted for miles away!
I have the book that Prien wrote about his life and this mission. It was consider a sucide mission but they managed to pull it of and after that he wrote the book, But with some things leftout of course.
(but there is a corrected chapter in it now)
He was a hero back in Germany and the book sold alot ofcourse.
To bad he died later in the war.
I loved this show when I was a kid.
Amen to that!
I read this story when I was still in Sub School. As I understood it, he came up a small river in to Scapa Flow. Still an amazing maneuver which only could have been done in the early stages of the war.
Donald Hill Having driven across the causeway between the two islands and with salt water on both sides, I can assure you it was no river.
Both the American and German navies started WWII with torpedoes that malfunctioned / misfired - a lot .
The Germans quickly found who-what-why was responsible, fixed the issue, put people in jail, and started sinking ships.
The Americans stood round in groups and pointed at the others.
Sometimes you have to kick butt and take names.
In military schools, you learn more from your ennemies than from your friends. If politicians could do the same.
But they are ALL on the same team, they use it like a puppet show!!
Great series! Very interesting!
Prien's IWO was not a Heinz, it was Englebert Endrass (Erich Topp's best friend) who went on to Command his own boat. He was a very successful Skipper in his own right and was lost with all hands in the Atlantic, later in the war.
Damn these men were tough.
countrysamurai They had to be, from skipper to the lowest seaman. Submarine life was hard and while easier today remains difficult duty and all submariners are volunteers. Good comment.
The Toughest they had to endure all they had to !
Almost 80% of all U-Boat crews died during the war.
Until Hogan's Heroes a pretty much unknown Werner Klemperer played character actors in a long list of mostly dramas. Most notable is a 1961 docu-drama where he played Adolph Eichman in one about the Isrealis capture of the notorious Nazi General. There is one made in the mid-50s I saw years ago where he played part of an American Air Force cargo plane pilot group, speaking a straight American dialect with no accent. I can't find it in his filmography, most likely because his name had been Americanized in the credits. Silent Service was one of a number of weekly WWII & military shows that were a staple of early TV when I was a young boy in the 1950s. I watched all of them.
Also, you may recall that Klemperer had a supporting role in "Judgment at Nuremberg" (1961), starring Spencer Tracy and Richard Widmark (Klemperer played one of the defendants on trial). He appeared on at least one episode of "Perry Mason" starring Raymond Burr.
He also played in Perry Mason
Back in 1962 I saw the superstructure of the ship in Scapa Flow at low tide. So sad!
That's a young Col. Klink from Hogans Heroes. Seriously. LOL 😆
Werner Kimpler
No one ever escaped from Stalag U47!
anyone who tries will receive 30 days in the cooler
or heir admiral there has never been a successful escape from Scapa Flow .
Marlon Brando,, Denzel Washington, and Yule Burner were great in this movie!
Werner Klemperer (Colonel Klink) as Günther Prien ? Interesting. It recalls his role as U-Boat commander on the episode of *One Step Beyond*.
I didn't know he was in Madness, too.
So., Klink. wore.a Kreigsmarine. hat before.a.Luftwaffe hat,?
Must have changed jobs.
I thought that was Werner Klemper...
A Vienesse Jew who hated the NAZIs
@@williamschall9124 Klemperer was Jewish, but not Viennese, he was German. Leon Askin who played Burkhalter in Hogan's Heroes was Austrian though, maybe from Vienna...not sure.
Yep! I just noticed! Lol!
**His 'luck' ran out...that's all...service in a submarine was always dangerous, that's why all the men were volunteers...the slightest mistake or miscalculation could doom a ship in seconds, and yet they gave their best efforts towards sinking enemy ships at every turn...even when doing so seemed suicidal to attempt** 36,000 men were in the 'U-Boot' service...only 6,000 were left by May of '45.
Perceptive intelligent underrated comment. I would even add: Life in general can be just like that.
Wow that is a huge figure.
@@emansnas I would've answered, but 'Tube had 'Account Suspended' for 6-monhs w/no explanation given.
@@gerrynightingale9045 Sorry to hear that. Sometimes YT uh... seems to work in mysterious ways. (You might want to check your Channel's Discussion section to see what's there)
@@emansnas *I'm not 'fighting a battle' with 'Tube...it's more a question of
"What constitutes 'Censorship' as opposed to shutting-down 'Hate Channels' as being the 'right thing to do'*
( *The 'Rittenhouse' case makes me nauseous with the unending 'story' of
this idiot-child's 'Adventures'* )
*Something is seriously wrong with America that has nothing to do with the Pandemic virus*
*The fact that tRump had 75-million votes in the Election makes everything 'meaningless and hopeless' to me...like watching books being burned*
( *The fact that the media 'pandered and catered' to an 'ass-hat clown' EVERY MINUTE OF THE NIGHT AND DAY is responsible for the acidic erosion of everything 'right and good' in America* )
*It means millions of people are actually just as stupid and hateful as I thought they were and secretly hoping I'm wrong and "It just can't happen"*
They forgot to mention that after this attack Churchill had them build causeways to block the attack route used and provide a road link between the islands. They're still there. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill_Barriers
Also it was later found that the sub the HMS Wolverine attacked was actually the UA and it didn't sink. It's unknown what actually happened to U-47.
These videos of submarines is awesome keep up the good work keep showing them World War II diesel submarines were the best
Gunther Prien played by Werner Klemperer aka Col. Klink of Hogan's Hero's!
KLEMPERER.
I knew it had to be him. Schultz !!!!!!!!!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊
Wait, that's not Jason Segal? :D
heroes
Wonder if Sgt. Schultz was the the on board cook on u 47
The beginning clip where like half the submarine came vertical out of the water is priceless
more like 60 degrees from level
I believe that was the USS Chopper! She was in crisis going down vertically. If memory serves, her stern was 900’ below the surface, her bow was below 600’. Her test depth was approx 340’. An amazing boat, full of amazing crew.
I was more amused at Col. "Klink" at the helm of the U-47.....😜
Ahoy it's *Colonel Klink of Hogan's Heroes!!*
Werner Kempler is the same actor that played the U boat captain..also played the Germain p.o.w. camp commandant in Hogans Heroes on tv...
Funny. The main german went on to play in Hogan's Heroes. Thanks for this.
OMG ITS COLONEL KLINK!!!! Wow Haha! But seriously though this is an amazing episode of a classic show and I WANT TO SEE MORE~!
Hollywood version of U-47
The Kriegsmarine didnt use the "Heil" salute hardly ever. Especially not with Doenitz. It was hant used in the Wehrmacht until after the military was required to take the oath after the attempt on the Führer's life by Stauffenberg. Prien would not survive the war unfortunately. After this I feel like he deserved to live.
Z z
The first officer was also in the Enemy Below.
Best german submarine fleet!
VIIB for me. Practically the same sub though.
It's the strongest thing to see Klink with a full head of hair
,very good!!!
Apparently this was the last show of the series.
Klink!!!!!!! what is this man doing here?
viper mullin ...Major Hochsteder I presume...
I know nothing.
I read Prien’s book. It’s great.
I was watching and realized I knew the voice it took me a minute or two to recognize Werner I just saw him in a Batman episode
It is only recently that everybody in a submarine was forbidden to smoke while the boat was underwater due to the amount of pollution it created and the oxygen used to do so. Air conditioners and very good filters and scrubbers for use underwater were unknown. A few other mistakes made making this film but then many other USA films made or adapted about WWII contained much BS because they were taught they saved us, the British, and other Allies, and won the war forgetting what other Allied forces did, although it was a close call. Also, do not forget that the atomic bombs used by the USA word not have worked if the British had not given them the vacuum Megatron, amongst other things.
'nuf sed. ex-RN
Wotdermatter. Well said.
No one escapes from my submarine!
I wonder what happened to the men on the radio boat...? Were they left to drift,picked up by the u-boat or machined gunned down right there? Must be in the report of the U-boat....if it was ever found/recovered.
The rumours of crews machine-gunning survivors owed more to allied propaganda departments but have persisted.
There was only one documented instance of U-boats machine-gunning survivors in WW2. The captain (and the ships doctor who also took part) of that boat was hanged after the war. The incident was totally condemned by The Kriegsmarine and allied navies alike. It was more normal, certainly at the start of the war for the U- Boat crews to wish the crews in the lifeboats good luck, though they were forbidden to take on survivors.
75% of these U-boat crews did not come home, the highest attrition rate of any service, ever. Boys, just like ours conscripted and given no choice. Awful way to die.
Every sailor no matter what rank. Had to know all the job on the sub.
It was a great of skill as a captain of the submarine
I'm sure somebody's already pointed this out but that's Colonel Klink( sp).
Wow! The captain of U47 is Colonel Klink !
I thought the CO of the submarine went on to command Stalag 13
He did, and noone escaped from stalarg 13😉
Stop it😀
After the war , he ran a citrus processing plant in California, called Klinks citrus !!!
at 2:05, i believe that's the stalag commander from 'hogan's heroes'.
Royal Oak was old, but she was fully modernized compared to some of the others.
That's colonel Klink !
BUT, as we all know Prien was actually rescued and sat out the rest of the war under an assumed name as a POW commandant..
*****
Well yea, I'd say you are a little..are saying Klink (Werner Klemperer as Prein in this vid) was not a prisoner of war boss on Hogan's Heroes..??
@Jacob Zondag No, don't forget, " I did not have sexual relations with that woman"!!!! So funny. All the Rain and Muslim world stopped and noted what the American people wanted, even it's women!! Hard to ever recover any respect after it's thrown away!!!!!!
Werner Klemperer young and with hair. I barely recognized him.
Knowing a little about Werner, I'm surprised at this part. To recap, he happened to be out of Germany on an acting tour when the war began and he escaped. His family all lost their lives. When he agreed to do Hogan's heroes in 1965, it was only on the condition that Klink be an idiot so he could make fun of the Nazis. This serious part in 1958, less than 7 years earlier seems strangely at odds with the Kilnk character ????
If he played the part of Prien as an idiot, then how could American naval men learn anything from him? But he still played him as if he was a Nazi robot, not a warm, feeling human being. And another thing....that story about his family all being killed was bullshit. His family all moved to America long before the war, in 1935, he didn't "escape". He's full of shit.
Plus Prien was a Nazi unlike most U boat skippers.
I don't know where you got this story. His father Otto Klemperer emigrated to the U.S. in 1935 when Werner was 15. His father was music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and that was where Werner attended high school before studying acting at the Pasadena Playhouse. He joined the US Army Special Services and spent the war entertaining troops in the Pacific theatre
Bullshit. His father brought the whole family to America as German Jewish immigrants in the '30s when Werner was a child. He told the story on the Tonight Show to Johnny. You're not so wise Freddy. Stick to Bedrock.
Missing 7 March 1941, in the North Atlantic near the Rockall Bank and Trough.
Interesting to note that Doernitz was NOT a Nazi--and in this episode he did not return the Nazi salute, but rather merely shook hands with Prien/Klemperer. Hammer
great
The Japanese had the best Torpedoes followed by the Germans and in last place, the USA.
You got that right.
The Japanese Type 93 ("Long Lance") torpedo was the best torpedo of any navy in the world. High-speed, long-range, 1,000-pound warhead, left no wake--it caused the USN enormous trouble in the Pacific war.
Colonel Klink AND The Professor from Gilligans Island as his first officer Heinz. Both served in the US Army in WWII. Werner Klemperer as an entertainer in the Special Services. Russell Johnson was a highly decorated bomardier on B-25s in the Pacific, earning a Purple Heart and the Air medal with 44 missions. Correction: The 1st officer is probably Kurt Krueger, not Russell Johnson. I'm leaving Johnson's info here because it's interesting regardless.
@Chris Longski Read my whole post Chris. Filmographies are sometimes incomplete. I have seen several filmographies that are missing roles. Mostly with the series from the 50s and early 60s.
So many incorrect details and timings of Prien's attack in this film it's unbelievable! However, it was enjoyable.
Werner Von Klemperer practicing for Hogan's Heroes! Schultzie was too fat for the sub. He's probably looking for his lost Krag rifle again.
RIP royal oak
Finally, someone said it!!! Thank you, sir.
I was waiting for the U Boat Captain to yell HOGAN!
Very nice sir
Submarines don't control the seas like a capital ship does, but the very suspicion that an enemy submarine is operating in an area can deny the use of the seas to the enemy, too afraid to set sail.
Werner Klemperer (Col. Klink) in a world where his character had credability hehe. Great material I wouldnt have seen otherwise thanks :)
Didn't know that Col. Klink was a sub mariner before running Stalag 13.
Yeah and his xo was Schultz.😜😜
Very young Verner Klemperer, with hair, no less.
Werner Klemperer, (Col. Klink of Hogan's Hero's) played Gunter Preen. Didn't recognize him with a full head of hair but his voice was unmistakable. Ironically, Klemperer was Jewish. Great show.
That is a heck of a story. Was it ever made into a film?
That is Werner Klemperer as the commander of the German sub.
Wollen sie Amerikanishe zigaretten. Only the "good" stuff!!! Notice the airplane flying over the "Royal Oak" when hit by the first torpedo! During the second torpedo run one can see the same airplane flying over the torpedoed ship.
prien was not an ardent nazi nor an arrogant man as portrayed in this video.
Almost all u boat commander weren’t ardent Nazi specially the older one
my first name is John, i served in the Royal Navy but everyone called me Jjm, that name has stuck with me, gets confusing when I visit my family from Scotland where i was born and my sister and nephews who live in Nottingham where I was brought up, I myself live in Plymouth
Good"🎵🎶🎵🎶
Well, almost everyting in this movie is historically wrong, except that Priem did enter Scapa Flow and sank the Royal Oak and got out again.
You mean it's entertainment!! I dare them!!
This is normal for a war movie. NOTHING, absolutely nothing conforms to the facts or to historical reality. In the moment the jack-offs start with their nazi-shit, is when it starts going down hill.
You might be interested in this movie:
ruclips.net/video/fYyaCNirDV0/видео.html
That's a German movie about the Scapa Flow raid from the 1950s. It's the only u-boat movie out there which was filmed on an actual type VII boat (U-573, which was still afloat at the time of filming). The subtitles have a few mistakes, but are mostly okay.
Does anyone know the title/lyrics to the theme song ?
And don't tell Shultz about our plan. We have enough problems already.
The correct address of a U-boat commandant should be "Herr Kaleun" or "Herr Kaleu", since his rank was that of a "Kapitaenleutnant" (lieutenant commander), the lowest rank which would be entrusted with the command of a small naval vessel, like a U-boat.
That's Old Clink out of Hogans Heros.
Look how young colonel klink is 😂😂😂😂
maybe I learned my German uboat history wrong, gross admiral doenitz was not an admiral yet but a commodore when prien was called about scapa flow mission.
Yep Rader was but Donitz was a true Nazi.
Rader believed in surface ships.
They would have given the Krebs marine salute.
The day after this attack the passage was blocked by a block ship. Today this passage is blocked by a causeway
Good,one like.
Colonial Klink also captained a UBoat???
Stalag 13 :)
@@davidcurrie6955 I think it was based on "17".
LOL!! So what are HINKLE 111's doing attacking a "U BOAT?????????"
Karl Colt: Heinkel
Well done. I had assumed beaufighters. Clearly not.
HOOOGAAAAAANNNNN
Love the American / German take off..
Pedant alert. U47 was a Type VIIB, The film shows a Type IX
Damn. Why get a real u-boat if it isn't historically accurate! They should have just raised the original, for crying out loud!
+William Signs Looking back a year, I'm not sure whether or not I was being sarcastic. Anyways, have a cookie. (::)
I think they call it poetic license . . .
Good idea
This uboat its a type VIIc. Exactly U573. During 1960 this uboat was of Spanish navy and using in this film.
Three or four hands on the deck of that picket ship with BAR's and/or a .50 BMG would have taken out at least a few jerrys for their trouble. Nowadays an RPG, better yet. OORAH!
I thought that Colonel Klink was in the Luftwaffe?
Kolonel Klink!
my uncle was on the Royal Oak when it was sunk by the U47, his name was John Milligan, im named after him
Alaaaaaaarm!!!!!!!!!
i thought there were no pickets and air attacks
The actor of Prien looks like Hans Rudel
Daniel Montero "Colonel Klink" from the TV show "Hogan's Heroes"
Werner Klemperer.