Nita Talbot is still alive & in her early-90s now. She played Marya, the White Russian - Cpl LeBeau's love interest (LeBeau was played by Robert Clary who passed away last November in his mid-90s).
My godfather was a B-17 pilot in WW2 and while I loved the show as a kid, he hated it. He said "Matt, the Germans were many things, stupid wasn't one of them
@michaeltaylor8501 I'd probably be kinda chapped too if I was in the 8th Air Force over Europe and saw half my buddies not go home. Germans and jokes won't work
Newkirk definitely isn't a colonel. For one, he doesn't like chartreuse. For another, he isn't a fan of "bleedin' officers"😂 Also, it's "Crane" at 5:23, not "Crave".
Come on guys, how can you so blatantly screw up the main plot point of the show?? At 0:18 you say that each week the prisoners try to escape but fail in some humorous way. The whole point of the show is that the prisoners COULD escape any time (and often did) but stay, or come back, to continue foiling the best laid plans of the Nazis.
same here we got to meet him in the 70s he was the grand marshall tobacco festival.rva at the footnall game the next day my late dad waa the coach so he and my older brother met and i think a newspaper guy took a photo of dad shaking his hand and my brother and i with john dad introduced us and he chatted with him a bit we were like 12 14 so was cool we git to meet sgt shultz my brother think has our photo by coincidence i wenr to school.with werners great nephew he had photo of uncle werner his dad was his nephew and had his book tobacco festival was a big thing richmond every year had a celebrity grand marshall and a football game so john one year how we met him of course was honorary team captain that day think dad handed him the plaque in the photo.was tradition for the head coach and celebrity
Another fun fact is Bob Crane is said to be the drummer in the Hogan's Heroes theme song! It would make sense since Crane was an accomplished drummer. The Hogan's Heroes LP record shown here is in fact a collector's item. I was fortunate enough to have found a copy autographed by Bob Crane. How cool is that?
Also, it seems to me if you watch The Longest Day, the opening has the same drum cadence and this appeared prior to Hogans Hero’s. Is this where it came from? Not sure but it is the same cadence.
@@dennisleahy4837maybe not a rip off but a simulation because of the snare drum 🥁 Sounds like a war cadence in conjunction with actual army cadences 🫨 .. Ouch!! That one hurt the ol’ 🧠 🤗 colonel Hogan !!!….
You got it wrong. The P.O.W.s of "Hogan's Hero's" weren't trying to escape & bungling it in funny ways; but generally instead, they were intentionally sticking around regardless of their various, mostly easy escapes in order to: run sabotage missions within Germany; get key friendlies, key materials, & key information mostly to the allies outside of Germany; capture key enemy individuals; & disgrace key enemy individuals (perhaps even to the point of getting such arrested by the Gestapo).
One of my favorite sitcoms, ever. Schultz makes the show. Easily my favorite character. Newkirk was my favorite amongst the prisoners. That said, I love this cast across the board.
Schultz was the perfect 'everyman', just a regular citizen who got drafted into the nazi army, hoping to survive long enough to see the end of the war and go back home. Same as so many soldiers from every other army. I think of folks like that, whenever I see a clip about the war in Ukraine and Russia; how many soldiers want to be in a war? NONE. It's all about Putin's desire to go down in history as a czar.
3:47 only Hochstetter was a "Nazi", In 1931 he joined the Nazi Party, becoming a member of the SS and later the Gestapo, Klink and Schultz were Deutsches Heer (German Army) in ww1 but in ww2 they were both Luftwaffe and neither were a member of the Nazi Party, Burkhalter was Wehrmacht, and also was never a member of the Nazi Party. Not all Germans were Nazis
Always loved when Col. Hogan left camp in a Nazi uniform and introduced himself to other ranking Nazis as Col. Hoganmueller, Hoganhoff, Hoganschmitt, etc. I named my dog "Hogan" (after Hoganmueller) because of my love for the show. My other all-time favorite episodes are when Carter impersonates Hitler or German generals. The episodes I don't care for are the ones featuring Col.Crittendon.
Hogan's Heroes was one of many great 1969s comedy shows that followed the success formula of having many, well developed characters played by very good actors with very good writing, as well as a great, catchy theme song. That formula lived on into the 70s and exists today. It's always hard to pick a favorite character, but in this instance I'd pick the lead, Hogan. It was witty, daring, charming, assertive, and smart. The other actors played key roles essential to the success of the show. That's why it's still being aired today.
@@FactsVerse You didn't ask me, but my favorite was the one where Hogan and his men convinced the Germans the the war was over. Several POW's that Hogan was helping to escape drove out the front gate in Hochstetter's car!
David, you are 100% spot on! In Bob Crane's early days, it was his "wit" that got him noticed by radio station executives who hired him as a disc jockey, the rest is history. Below is copied and pasted from Wiki: "Crane was a drummer from age 11, and he began his entertainment career as a radio personality, beginning in Hornell, New York and later in Connecticut. He then moved to Los Angeles, where he hosted the number-one rated morning radio show".
0:25 Are you confusing Hogan’s Heroes with Gilligan’s Island? The prisoners never tried to escape except temporarily to leave the camp to undertake a mission, but always returned. When they did leave, they (almost) always succeeded.
My decades-long friend, Parley Baer, not seen in this clip, played character roles in HH. He was Mayor Roy Stoner for Andy Griffith, Doc Appleby for Dukes of Hazzard, Darby for Ozzie & Harriett, and enjoyed a 70-year career.
I recently met Alan Oppenheimer, an actor who did three episodes of Hogan's Heroes. I asked him what his relationship with the cast members was like. He told Me Bob Crane was rather aloof and didn't speak much with him other than their screentime together. He told me Crane spent a lot of his down time on the set playing cards with a few of his closer friends. He really liked Klemperer and Banner and especially Robert Clary, whom he had lunch with weekly for many years.
In 1970 I dated a young lady who's father had been a POW in WWII. He absolutely despised this show as it more less mocked the situation that he had been subjected. I can certainly understand that.
My great-uncle, too, was a POW in Germany and Occupied Poland. It was such a horrible experience that he would never talk about it. Luckily, a fellow prisoner of his wrote a book about his experiences (and mentioned my great-uncle in it a number of times!); so we know a little _something_ about it.
My grandfather, a captured Army Corp of Engineers Sergeant, was in the real Stalag 13. He had very little to say about the war for the years I knew him except for 3 things: 1) "Don't buy that damn Jeep. They've probably killed more G.I.s than the Italians" (I had an opportunity to buy an older 50's surplus model at the time. A buddy did, and he rolled it 3 times before crushing his shoulder and nearly snapping his neck) 2) He came home 6'2" tall weighing 97 lbs. The Germans stole every Red Cross package ever sent and they mostly lived on onions grown in the garbage dumps. He never ate anything with onions again. 3) "The Nazis weren't funny"
At Shul, none of the other kids parents let them watch the show, since it minimilized the real evil of the time. Of course, if it were depicting those evils, it wouldn't be funny. However, even as a child, I knew that their point was valid.
#9 From what I heard, Klemperer actually had to detune his violin at first, and even later on, had to concentrate to play badly. If he didn't he would play perfectly since he had been trained so well!
Wait a minute, what do you mean, the prisoners tried to escape ever week and failed in some kind of humorous way? Did you watch the same show? They intentionally DIDN'T escape.
A good friend's late wife was born and raised in Berlin from 1936 until 1970. She always said that the Maj. Hochstetter character was the most realistic portrayal of an actual German officer on that show.
It"s hard to pick a favorite character. But if I had to pick just one, it would be Colonel Klink/Werner Klemperers character. He really made the show, and all the rest of the actors did a really good job with their character portrayals.
The Stalag 13 set in CA was next to the set of Mayberry. Apparently the Andy Griiffith actors sometimes would sneak over for a peak when it was filming. Can you imagine Aunt Bea and Goober chomping on pickles with Opie while the Nazi trucks rolled into the camp. "Nip it in the bud" yelled Barney Fife. That would be priceless footage.
He left because he said he didn't have much to do on the show and he wanted to direct. I saw a statement from someone who directed later who said he was excellent as a director
Years ago they made a cheap made for TV sequel to The Dirty Dozen, and they had a black guy in SS camo and his face wrapped in bandages. Still had black hands. Terrible flick, and Lee Marvin looked very old and very bored.
Early episodes they try helping a Soviet prisoner escape but he thought they were really Germans. Dixon’s line “Do I look German to you?” Had me laughing the entire show
I watched Hogan's Heroes every night until Dish network took off metv. My father who was a WWII vet loved the show and we watched it every week. He loved Shultz.
Great and funny Show. I still watch it in ME-TV Channel. A couple of points. 1. Otto Klemperer said he only took the role of Klink as long as Colonel Hogan always won in each episode. 3. The only memorable Song of WW2 is Marlene Dietrich’s “Lili Marlene” which was listened with great emotion and sorrow by English and German soldiers between battles in North Africa. Listen to it in English and in German. Very powerful and soul searching.
Hochstetter “Vatt eeez zisss mann dooing here????” always cracked me up. To me he was the cherry on top of wonderfully talented cast, writers and directors.
Sometimes a “prisoner” was mustered out (one of the first episodes) but another “prisoner” was brought in & took the other’s place-- same name as the one who left. Schultz knew it was different person but never told the colonel or turned them in. As the barracks guard he would have been in huge trouble for “letting” it happen. Klemperer only agreed to play the role of Klink if Klink never won. Askins was arrested by the SA & beaten by the SS. Banner didn’t speak English when he first came to the US-- he learned his lines phonetically before he became proficient in English. Caine was from the southern US & learned to suppress his southern accent, he was a master of 32 foreign & American dialects. He also played the banjo. Clary might have been one of the fatalities of the Holocaust but his talent at singing & entertaining helped save his life as the guards forced him & other talented prisoners to put on shows. He refused to discuss what happened to him during the war but was eventually convinced to speak out by another survivor. If you search, there are interviews he did later in life on youtube
HH outdoor scenes were filmed on 40 acre lot, Desilu productions. Andy Griffith/Mayberry were also filmed on the same lot. I believe paramount purchased the lot from Lucy and Desi. You could often see palm trees in the distance in more than a few outdoor HH camp scenes.
The site is now a factory unit development in Culver City. I tried to mark it as an historic site in Google Maps, but was rejected for lack of 'references'.
They didn't try to escape in most episodes; there WAS a steam room; Robert Clary was not a "jewish nazi", but rather a French prisoner of war. I doubt anyone who made this ever watched the show.
You got the first fact completely wrong. Hogan's unit was running missions for the Allies behind enemy lines and ferrying people out of Germany through the Underground. They were doing it right under Klink's nose and after a while, Schultz was a reluctant accomplice. They could have escaped in seconds if they choose to. They were all highly skilled operatives.
Lebeau was a French pow, not a Nazi. I saw Werner Klemperer at the Metropolitan Opera, but it was a speaking part (in German) and not a singing role in Mozart's "The Abduction From the Seraglio."
Something that most folks will not catch but at 7 seconds salutes were rendered between Col. Klink and Sgt Schultz. One mistake is the fact Col Klink saluted first this is not done as the enlisted member will always salute first followed by the officer.
When the show first went into syndication in the United States, I would watch it with my grandpa, who was a veteran of the German army in the first world war. He would laugh, but still insist that his people were nowhere near as stupid as portrayed on television and it would’ve never happened that way. It was one of the few good memories I had of him where he was laughing and engaging. He was otherwise cold and somewhat emotionally distant.
The Best character had to be Schultz Unquestionably Hands Down!!! It would have been nice if you had mentioned the Bing Crosby Christmas special where both characters who played Schultz and Klink sang Silent Night in its Original German Language!!! 🤠👍🇩🇪
Hogans Heroes were a Sabateur and Resistance Team. They got new cast members by rotating back to the States when their time stationed there was over. A brilliant concept.
Night scenes were filmed in full daylight using optical filters to give the illusion of night. Walls in Kink's office are not perpendicular, but slightly angled. This is a common technique to allow a greater filming angle and for the viewer's vision to focus on actors rather than where perpendicular walls meet. Views looking out the barracks door or from the office used matt paintings which is why another barracks is often seen directly across from Hogan's barracks when the door is opened even though on the exterior set there is no building between Hogan's barracks and Klink's office. Both the guard tower and water tower were recycled from other productions.
One thing that has always bothered me about a forgotten aspect of WWII is that there were GERMANS THAT WERE KILLED BY THE NAZIS because they didn’t fall into step! Nobody ever talks about that!
Austrians were killed by the nazis as well. My Grandmothers brother was very negative about Hitler & the nazis and was outspoken about such. One night they came for him, and he was never seen again.
@@StratBurst92 That is very similar to what happened to my grandfather and he didn’t fall into the usual categories of why, he wasn’t a cooperative good German and disappeared in a Nazi Prison.
I was shocked to discover that the Nazis killed Germans as well. I make sure, when I reference WWII, that the war was against the Nazis rather than the German people and that the German people suffered at their hands greatly too.
At Planes of Fame in Perris, California I once met a B-17 gunner who'd been shot down over Nazi Germany. He was sent to Stalag Luft III, where the year before the Great Escape had taken place. He asked if I'd ever seen Hogan's Heroes. I said I had, but 'I know it's not real." "No, on the contrary, it was all basically true. We even had a Sargent Schultz, and that was even his name." He told me they always had two radios, spare tubes to keep them running. They knew more about what was happening in the war from the BBC than the German officers running the camp. They blackmailed their Sargent Schultz by trading things they got in their Red Cross packages that weren't available in Germany at the time, Schultz in turn brought them little things from town -- which were still contraband and verbotten to give to prisoners. If they ratted out Schultz at the very least he'd be sent to the Eastern Front, the Allied airman would get 30 days in the cooler. They then told Schultz where to meet a guy who would give him things to bring into the camp. He brought in the radio parts. Something else about after the war and veterans. Almost none of the many veterans and concentration camp survivors I met ever talked about the terrible stuff, instead they'd usually talk about the shenanigans they got into with the other guys. In the 1980s I spent an hour with two old Jewish men, at least one of whom had been in Auschwitz . What did they want to tell me about? The American Displaced Persons Camp they were housed in after the war. "The guards, GIs all had rifles." He snorted. "We were behind wire, but it wasn't like the Nazis." Right next to the cam was a German farmer's apple orchid. "We watched it until the fruit was ripe, then we tore down the fence and raided the orchard. We didn't just pick the apples, we destroyed the trees." (A bit of revenge.) The guards were yelling, "Stop or we'll shoot." They both laughed. No one listened, they weren't going to shoot anybody. Doesn't mean the war was funny, but the funny bits were more likely to be shared and enjoyed. Hence Hogan's Heroes. (I've since heard of mistreatment in the DP camps, but not from the two guys I knew. ) I worked a movie with Neville Brand. I asked him what it was like? He said, "All I remember is waiting behind a rock on a beach to meet some guy." He might've been putting me on. He was one of the most decorated American soldiers of the war. But look at his war record, where would there be a beach?
Sorry, but there WAS a steam room in at least one episode. Episode 1-01 "The Informer". Hogan shows the informer around the tunnel complex, and when he shows him the steam room, he tells him that they eat very well, and since no one would believe a fat POW, then they had the steam room to help keep the pounds off.
I recall turning on TV a couple of months back and an episode of the Nan from U.N.CL.E. was just starting, with John Banner as a guest star. Sgt. Schultz meets Dr Mallard (NCIS)!
Another factoid: Both Werner K. and Howard Caine appeared in the 1961 movie Judgement at Nuremberg. Also, while Klemperer was an accomplished violinist, Caine was also a gifted banjo musician and folk singer. I know, hard to imagine the Major belting out Appalachian tunes and strumming the banjo.
1) It was the *Germans* that would fail in whatever their plans were in a humorous way. The prisoners were plants: they stayed put, escaping temporarily to commit sabotage, then return back before roll call. Occasionally, they’d help someone escape, but they were usually someone special that wasn’t under Klink’s responsibility. The prisoners wanted Kline to stay, since it was easier to commit their espionage acts. 2) Colonel Kline was played by Werner Klemperer, not Weiner. 3) Clery’s character - Le Beau - was not a Nazi; he was a Frenchman.
Is it so hard to learn how to pronounce stalag correctly? Having watched this show as a kid a,l found the narrator's mispronunciation very distracting.
what you forgot is the ladies on hogans heroes......how many were there?? tiger, helga., russian were on a few times. french girl, women captured. 3 female spies. 3 female gestapo agents,
4:08 Jewish Nazi? Robert Clary was French by birth. The youngest of 14 children, he spent the war years in the Ottmuth and the Buchenwald concentration camps.
John Banner is one of my favorite actors of all time. He could be very funny, yet he could make the viewer pay attention to someone or something else immediately after he finished his line.
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Never knew that all the actors who played Nazi characters on this show were all actually Jewish people . . . That really hit the top of my mind . . . This place would break records for humanity books in every world if people of every kind could only get a long . . .
@@FactsVerse I’ve seen them all. I have them all recorded. Hard to pick a favorite. I like the one where the Gestapo takes over and they need to frame the new Commandant by getting him to sign a fake surrender form for General Muler. The one where the German General knows Hogan’s birthday and his team ends up kidnapping the General in his own bomber. The first one with the Russian girl agent is good. All of them with her or Major Hochstetter.
The rifle carried by the camp guards is a Krag-Jorgensen. The Krag was adopted by the US military and quickly replaced, earning the Krag the nickname of the one-war rifle.
The Beatles landed in the US in 1964 and "Beatle Mania" dates back to 1963, two years prior to the first airing of Hogan's Heroes, so the Liverpool accent was well known.
You should have mentioned there was a rl mass excape from german pow camp , they made multiple excape tunnels , made german outfits annd forged travel documents. This was made into the 1963 movie "the great excape". The twist in heros is though they could have excaped they remain to support the alied war effort undercover
@@FactsVerse Loved it, too. Most survivors did. It was comic relief. My father laughed every time Schultz came one. I think he reminded him of someone! And there was, of course, the element of catharsis.
Hogan's Heroes was one of my dad's favorite TV shows and I watched it with him all the time as I was growing up because a local station showed it on reruns a lot.
@@FactsVerse The one about how they had to rob the bank in the local town to get the funds needed to pay a spy for a map to a military base after Klink accidently burned the funds the allied forces airdropped for them...that episode always made me laugh the most!
I used to laugh when Kinchloe would do Hitler's voice on the radio! In one episode, someone even suggested that he impersonate Hitler! He just gives a sardonic look and then I think they got Carter to do it.
I must connect with every character in a sitcom in order for me to fully enjoy it. HH was one of a few that I watched every episode like I did with M*A*S*H. That was fun, thanks.
How ridiculous: they never tried to escape and never failed in humorous ways How can you do a video on a series and misrepresent the whole theme of the show? 😠
Werner Klemper was definitely an accomplished musical talent. I saw him in the early 70s in “The Sound of Music” at the Dorthy Chandler in LA. His voice was amazing! Presto Change-o!
Who wrote this script? Robert Clary's character was neither Jewish nor a Nazi, and calling Clary a "Jewish Nazi" in the script was an unfortunate choice, to say the least.
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All except one. Baker from season 6 to replace Kinchloe . (Character names)
Nita Talbot is still alive & in her early-90s now. She played Marya, the White Russian - Cpl LeBeau's love interest (LeBeau was played by Robert Clary who passed away last November in his mid-90s).
My godfather was a B-17 pilot in WW2 and while I loved the show as a kid, he hated it. He said "Matt, the Germans were many things, stupid wasn't one of them
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He's right; & that's why this show is a comedic work & not a work of non-fiction, eh? 🤔
@michaeltaylor8501 I'd probably be kinda chapped too if I was in the 8th Air Force over Europe and saw half my buddies not go home. Germans and jokes won't work
Some inaccuracies: The POW’s didn’t really try to escape as they were an undercover espionage force. Newkirk was a Corporal, not a Colonel.
And LeBeau, the Frenchman!!!, was not a Nazi, he was one of the prisoners. They lost me on that one, so who knows what other inaccuracies there are.
and Werner is pronounced "Werner", not "Whiner"
2:30. Newkirk introduced as a corporal then slip-up next reference at 2:50
Be to wonder if they even watched the show as research
Newkirk definitely isn't a colonel. For one, he doesn't like chartreuse. For another, he isn't a fan of "bleedin' officers"😂
Also, it's "Crane" at 5:23, not "Crave".
The prisoners didn’t try to escape. They were helping others escape and would assist the underground. They could have escaped but purposely didn’t.
The reader wasn't familiar with the show clearly.
Exactly
Come on guys, how can you so blatantly screw up the main plot point of the show?? At 0:18 you say that each week the prisoners try to escape but fail in some humorous way. The whole point of the show is that the prisoners COULD escape any time (and often did) but stay, or come back, to continue foiling the best laid plans of the Nazis.
I think he was thinking of Gilligan's Island!
Which worked comedically with Klink's ongoing proclamation "Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 13."
Schultz's iconic, "I know nothing! I see nothing!" was a running gag in my family when I grew up.
same here we got to meet him in the 70s he was the grand marshall tobacco festival.rva at the footnall game the next day my late dad waa the coach so he and my older brother met and i think a newspaper guy took a photo of dad shaking his hand and my brother and i with john dad introduced us and he chatted with him a bit we were like 12 14 so was cool we git to meet sgt shultz my brother think has our photo by coincidence i wenr to school.with werners great nephew he had photo of uncle werner his dad was his nephew and had his book tobacco festival was a big thing richmond every year had a celebrity grand marshall and a football game so john one year how we met him of course was honorary team captain that day think dad handed him the plaque in the photo.was tradition for the head coach and celebrity
come to think of it think it was a commerative football
Another fun fact is Bob Crane is said to be the drummer in the Hogan's Heroes theme song! It would make sense since Crane was an accomplished drummer. The Hogan's Heroes LP record shown here is in fact a collector's item. I was fortunate enough to have found a copy autographed by Bob Crane. How cool is that?
cool!
Also, it seems to me if you watch The Longest Day, the opening has the same drum cadence and this appeared prior to Hogans Hero’s. Is this where it came from? Not sure but it is the same cadence.
I always felt there were a couple of mistakes in the drumming on the theme song.
@@dennisleahy4837maybe not a rip off but a simulation because of the snare drum 🥁 Sounds like a war cadence in conjunction with actual army cadences 🫨 .. Ouch!! That one hurt the ol’ 🧠 🤗 colonel Hogan !!!….
@@tryithere hmmm 🤔?..Really? Never noticed that….
Klemperer was just brilliant. His work on the show made it what it was. Without that character, and Klemperer’s portrayal,the show would have flopped
We absolutely agree! Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts. Be safe and have a great evening!
Klemperer agreed to appear in the show only if the show never depicted the Nazis succeeding at anything.
@@joebarr725 yes I read that. I'm sure it took some serious contemplation about accepting the role as a Jewish person.
@@eltatoyo9211Klink, Hochstetter, Burchalter. All German characters played by Jewish actors.
Klemperer once talk of his father who congratulating him on being on TV but had gotten to title slightly wrong , he thought is was Hogan’s Hebrews
You got it wrong.
The P.O.W.s of "Hogan's Hero's" weren't trying to escape & bungling it in funny ways; but generally instead, they were intentionally sticking around regardless of their various, mostly easy escapes in order to: run sabotage missions within Germany; get key friendlies, key materials, & key information mostly to the allies outside of Germany; capture key enemy individuals; & disgrace key enemy individuals (perhaps even to the point of getting such arrested by the Gestapo).
I always loved when Major Hofstetter would yell at Col. Klink regarding Hogan interjecting,
"Who is this man!"
"Vat is zis man doing heeerrrr?"
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Hahahaha.
He's definitely my favorite character.
He could get so incensed. And was usually the only clear minded thinker on the German side
One of my favorite sitcoms, ever. Schultz makes the show. Easily my favorite character. Newkirk was my favorite amongst the prisoners. That said, I love this cast across the board.
We're happy to know that you're a fan of the show. In your opinion, what is its best episode?
"I see nothing!" "NOTHING!!!""NOTHING!!!"
Schultz was the perfect 'everyman', just a regular citizen who got drafted into the nazi army, hoping to survive long enough to see the end of the war and go back home. Same as so many soldiers from every other army. I think of folks like that, whenever I see a clip about the war in Ukraine and Russia; how many soldiers want to be in a war? NONE. It's all about Putin's desire to go down in history as a czar.
3:47 only Hochstetter was a "Nazi", In 1931 he joined the Nazi Party, becoming a member of the SS and later the Gestapo, Klink and Schultz were Deutsches Heer (German Army) in ww1 but in ww2 they were both Luftwaffe and neither were a member of the Nazi Party, Burkhalter was Wehrmacht, and also was never a member of the Nazi Party. Not all Germans were Nazis
Always loved when Col. Hogan left camp in a Nazi uniform and introduced himself to other ranking Nazis as Col. Hoganmueller, Hoganhoff, Hoganschmitt, etc. I named my dog "Hogan" (after Hoganmueller) because of my love for the show.
My other all-time favorite episodes are when Carter impersonates Hitler or German generals.
The episodes I don't care for are the ones featuring Col.Crittendon.
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and the look on Schulz's face when he sees Hitler.
Extraordinary thing!
I didn’t care at all for Crittendon either!
Guess I’ll go plant some geraniums.
Hogan's Heroes was one of many great 1969s comedy shows that followed the success formula of having many, well developed characters played by very good actors with very good writing, as well as a great, catchy theme song. That formula lived on into the 70s and exists today. It's always hard to pick a favorite character, but in this instance I'd pick the lead, Hogan. It was witty, daring, charming, assertive, and smart. The other actors played key roles essential to the success of the show. That's why it's still being aired today.
We're happy to know that you love the show. In your opinion, what is its best episode?
Bob Crane's dead pan humor was genius. He was the perfect choice the role of Hogan. Klemperer's Emmy wins should have gone to Crane in my book.
@@FactsVerse You didn't ask me, but my favorite was the one where Hogan and his men convinced the Germans the the war was over. Several POW's that Hogan was helping to escape drove out the front gate in Hochstetter's car!
David, you are 100% spot on! In Bob Crane's early days, it was his "wit" that got him noticed by radio station executives who hired him as a disc jockey, the rest is history.
Below is copied and pasted from Wiki:
"Crane was a drummer from age 11, and he began his entertainment career as a radio personality, beginning in Hornell, New York and later in Connecticut. He then moved to Los Angeles, where he hosted the number-one rated morning radio show".
@@seymourscagnetti1413 did not know that, thanks for sharing
0:25 Are you confusing Hogan’s Heroes with Gilligan’s Island? The prisoners never tried to escape except temporarily to leave the camp to undertake a mission, but always returned. When they did leave, they (almost) always succeeded.
My decades-long friend, Parley Baer, not seen in this clip, played character roles in HH. He was Mayor Roy Stoner for Andy Griffith, Doc Appleby for Dukes of Hazzard, Darby for Ozzie & Harriett, and enjoyed a 70-year career.
@rogersmith4834 wow you knew Parley Baer? He did plenty of Bewitched episodes too.
How in the heck did you meet Parley? That's great!!
Also a bunch of great radio roles. Terrific actor.
I always liked Newkirk. He was like the kid your Mom never wanted you to play with but in a tight spot you would want him on your side.
Perfect description!
I recently met Alan Oppenheimer, an actor who did three episodes of Hogan's Heroes. I asked him what his relationship with the cast members was like. He told Me Bob Crane was rather aloof and didn't speak much with him other than their screentime together. He told me Crane spent a lot of his down time on the set playing cards with a few of his closer friends. He really liked Klemperer and Banner and especially Robert Clary, whom he had lunch with weekly for many years.
That's cool! Is he still working?
@@FrauWilhelmKlink I think he's retired now. He's close to 90 years old so I'm sure he's taking it easy. He appeared to be healthy.
I think Crane was too busy looking at the 2 women Cynthia Lynn and Sigrid Valdis.
And Bob made movies, remember?@@edwardcricchio6106
In 1970 I dated a young lady who's father had been a POW in WWII. He absolutely despised this show
as it more less mocked the situation that he had been subjected. I can certainly understand that.
My great-uncle, too, was a POW in Germany and Occupied Poland. It was such a horrible experience that he would never talk about it. Luckily, a fellow prisoner of his wrote a book about his experiences (and mentioned my great-uncle in it a number of times!); so we know a little _something_ about it.
My grandfather, a captured Army Corp of Engineers Sergeant, was in the real Stalag 13. He had very little to say about the war for the years I knew him except for 3 things:
1) "Don't buy that damn Jeep. They've probably killed more G.I.s than the Italians" (I had an opportunity to buy an older 50's surplus model at the time. A buddy did, and he rolled it 3 times before crushing his shoulder and nearly snapping his neck)
2) He came home 6'2" tall weighing 97 lbs. The Germans stole every Red Cross package ever sent and they mostly lived on onions grown in the garbage dumps. He never ate anything with onions again.
3) "The Nazis weren't funny"
At Shul, none of the other kids parents let them watch the show, since it minimilized the real evil of the time. Of course, if it were depicting those evils, it wouldn't be funny. However, even as a child, I knew that their point was valid.
@@danielkessler7402 Only a couple of episodes even touched on Nazi Germany's racial policies, it's true.
#9 From what I heard, Klemperer actually had to detune his violin at first, and even later on, had to concentrate to play badly. If he didn't he would play perfectly since he had been trained so well!
His father was one of the great orchestra conductors, Otto Klemperer.
@@PaulMackSomers Which was mentioned in this video...
@@Tim.NavVet.EN2 But not at this point in the comments.
Leon Askin (Birkhalter) doesn't get enough credit. Humorless and humorous at the same time.
Leon Askin final role was a college professor on Happy Days who would hypnotize Ralph Malph in being brave.
Wait a minute, what do you mean, the prisoners tried to escape ever week and failed in some kind of humorous way? Did you watch the same show? They intentionally DIDN'T escape.
Not only that they intentionally made sure Klink had a perfect record so they could keep him as Commandant.
" there's never been a successful escape from Stalag 13!"
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@@johnleeson6946 Lol!
came here to sat exactly that. they did not escaoe themselves, but helped others escape Germany or send intelligence to Allies.
A good friend's late wife was born and raised in Berlin from 1936 until 1970. She always said that the Maj. Hochstetter character was the most realistic portrayal of an actual German officer on that show.
She was only nine when the war ended. But also she would have been in the Soviet soldier’s target age for raip.
@@mountainguyed67 : "raip"?
I don’t remember any of Hogan’s Heroes trying to escape each week. Helping other prisoners escape, yes.
It"s hard to pick a favorite character. But if I had to pick just one, it would be Colonel Klink/Werner Klemperers character. He really made the show, and all the rest of the actors did a really good job with their character portrayals.
The Stalag 13 set in CA was next to the set of Mayberry. Apparently the Andy Griiffith actors sometimes would sneak over for a peak when it was filming. Can you imagine Aunt Bea and Goober chomping on pickles with Opie while the Nazi trucks rolled into the camp. "Nip it in the bud" yelled Barney Fife. That would be priceless footage.
and the set was close to Gomer Pyle's place. There are photos..with palm trees..
Ivan Dixon dressed in a German uniform. Pretty hilarious.
He left because he said he didn't have much to do on the show and he wanted to direct. I saw a statement from someone who directed later who said he was excellent as a director
Years ago they made a cheap made for TV sequel to The Dirty Dozen, and they had a black guy in SS camo and his face wrapped in bandages. Still had black hands. Terrible flick, and Lee Marvin looked very old and very bored.
Would it be hilarious today? Maybe that's the point.
Early episodes they try helping a Soviet prisoner escape but he thought they were really Germans. Dixon’s line “Do I look German to you?” Had me laughing the entire show
I watched Hogan's Heroes every night until Dish network took off metv. My father who was a WWII vet loved the show and we watched it every week. He loved Shultz.
Great and funny Show. I still watch it in ME-TV Channel.
A couple of points.
1. Otto Klemperer said he only took the role of Klink as long as Colonel Hogan always won in each episode.
3. The only memorable Song of WW2 is Marlene Dietrich’s “Lili Marlene” which was listened with great emotion and sorrow by English and German soldiers between battles in North Africa. Listen to it in English and in German. Very powerful and soul searching.
I believe his name is WERNER KLEMPERER. And you're right he only agreed to do the show if the Germans lost every time.
@@MG-es2no Right you are. My Bad@!
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Another memorable WWII song is "Der Fuehrer's face" by Spike Jones.
Colonel Klink was my favorite character in the show.
I loved his whip and monocle. 😉👍
Hochstetter “Vatt eeez zisss mann dooing here????” always cracked me up. To me he was the cherry on top of wonderfully talented cast, writers and directors.
They were ALL standout characters! One of the most creative comedies ever.
Sometimes a “prisoner” was mustered out (one of the first episodes) but another “prisoner” was brought in & took the other’s place-- same name as the one who left. Schultz knew it was different person but never told the colonel or turned them in. As the barracks guard he would have been in huge trouble for “letting” it happen.
Klemperer only agreed to play the role of Klink if Klink never won.
Askins was arrested by the SA & beaten by the SS.
Banner didn’t speak English when he first came to the US-- he learned his lines phonetically before he became proficient in English.
Caine was from the southern US & learned to suppress his southern accent, he was a master of 32 foreign & American dialects. He also played the banjo.
Clary might have been one of the fatalities of the Holocaust but his talent at singing & entertaining helped save his life as the guards forced him & other talented prisoners to put on shows. He refused to discuss what happened to him during the war but was eventually convinced to speak out by another survivor. If you search, there are interviews he did later in life on youtube
I believe Clary lost most of his family in WWII.
HH outdoor scenes were filmed on 40 acre lot, Desilu productions. Andy Griffith/Mayberry were also filmed on the same lot. I believe paramount purchased the lot from Lucy and Desi. You could often see palm trees in the distance in more than a few outdoor HH camp scenes.
Yes and the radio tower and power lines in many scenes. The fake snow that never melted. Schultz made the show. Now the filming lot is wharehouses.
The site is now a factory unit development in Culver City. I tried to mark it as an historic site in Google Maps, but was rejected for lack of 'references'.
They didn't try to escape in most episodes; there WAS a steam room; Robert Clary was not a "jewish nazi", but rather a French prisoner of war. I doubt anyone who made this ever watched the show.
You got the first fact completely wrong. Hogan's unit was running missions for the Allies behind enemy lines and ferrying people out of Germany through the Underground. They were doing it right under Klink's nose and after a while, Schultz was a reluctant accomplice. They could have escaped in seconds if they choose to. They were all highly skilled operatives.
Lebeau was a French pow, not a Nazi. I saw Werner Klemperer at the Metropolitan Opera, but it was a speaking part (in German) and not a singing role in Mozart's "The Abduction From the Seraglio."
I also saw him in a Broadway production of Cabaret. He was excellent and stayed in character.
Something that most folks will not catch but at 7 seconds salutes were rendered between Col. Klink and Sgt Schultz. One mistake is the fact Col Klink saluted first this is not done as the enlisted member will always salute first followed by the officer.
Hogan's heroes was the best show my dear old dad ever told me to watch.... I always watch all 6 seasons every few months 😂😂
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@@FactsVerse more episodes like these but for different shows like Big bang theory, friends, the office etc
I Dream of Jeannie, The Invaders, Hogan's Heroes, Columbo. Best of the best each in their genders.
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Robert Clary was Jewish but was NOT a Nazi! That information was completely untrue!
When the show first went into syndication in the United States, I would watch it with my grandpa, who was a veteran of the German army in the first world war. He would laugh, but still insist that his people were nowhere near as stupid as portrayed on television and it would’ve never happened that way. It was one of the few good memories I had of him where he was laughing and engaging. He was otherwise cold and somewhat emotionally distant.
The Nazis were not Buffoons, they were truly Evil People.
The Jewish actors insisted on making the Nazi characters as ridiculous as possible.
@@keithbarnes9419it’s a good way to ease the pain of the situation for all.
I'd like to point out that not everyone was a Nazi. Some were German, and others were Prussian but the Nazi's were always played seriously.
Funny I always liked Major Hochstetter. He was always suspicious and mean but also funny when he would get angry.
It's time for another Hogan's Heroes complete series DVDs marathon!!!
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The Best character had to be Schultz Unquestionably Hands Down!!!
It would have been nice if you had mentioned the Bing Crosby Christmas special where both characters who played Schultz and Klink sang Silent Night in its Original German Language!!! 🤠👍🇩🇪
Still watch it today love it
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My father owns the entire series! Such a good comedy show!!!!
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Klink would show up on Batman looking out the window as Batman and Robin climbed the building. Guess he was able to go 20 years into the future
Hogans Heroes were a Sabateur and Resistance Team. They got new cast members by rotating back to the States when their time stationed there was over. A brilliant concept.
Night scenes were filmed in full daylight using optical filters to give the illusion of night. Walls in Kink's office are not perpendicular, but slightly angled. This is a common technique to allow a greater filming angle and for the viewer's vision to focus on actors rather than where perpendicular walls meet. Views looking out the barracks door or from the office used matt paintings which is why another barracks is often seen directly across from Hogan's barracks when the door is opened even though on the exterior set there is no building between Hogan's barracks and Klink's office. Both the guard tower and water tower were recycled from other productions.
One thing that has always bothered me about a forgotten aspect of WWII is that there were GERMANS THAT WERE KILLED BY THE NAZIS because they didn’t fall into step! Nobody ever talks about that!
Austrians were killed by the nazis as well. My Grandmothers brother was very negative about Hitler & the nazis and was outspoken about such. One night they came for him, and he was never seen again.
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That is very similar to what happened to my grandfather and he didn’t fall into the usual categories of why, he wasn’t a cooperative good German and disappeared in a Nazi Prison.
I was shocked to discover that the Nazis killed Germans as well. I make sure, when I reference WWII, that the war was against the Nazis rather than the German people and that the German people suffered at their hands greatly too.
At Planes of Fame in Perris, California I once met a B-17 gunner who'd been shot down over Nazi Germany. He was sent to Stalag Luft III, where the year before the Great Escape had taken place. He asked if I'd ever seen Hogan's Heroes. I said I had, but 'I know it's not real." "No, on the contrary, it was all basically true. We even had a Sargent Schultz, and that was even his name." He told me they always had two radios, spare tubes to keep them running. They knew more about what was happening in the war from the BBC than the German officers running the camp. They blackmailed their Sargent Schultz by trading things they got in their Red Cross packages that weren't available in Germany at the time, Schultz in turn brought them little things from town -- which were still contraband and verbotten to give to prisoners. If they ratted out Schultz at the very least he'd be sent to the Eastern Front, the Allied airman would get 30 days in the cooler. They then told Schultz where to meet a guy who would give him things to bring into the camp. He brought in the radio parts.
Something else about after the war and veterans. Almost none of the many veterans and concentration camp survivors I met ever talked about the terrible stuff, instead they'd usually talk about the shenanigans they got into with the other guys. In the 1980s I spent an hour with two old Jewish men, at least one of whom had been in Auschwitz . What did they want to tell me about? The American Displaced Persons Camp they were housed in after the war. "The guards, GIs all had rifles." He snorted. "We were behind wire, but it wasn't like the Nazis." Right next to the cam was a German farmer's apple orchid. "We watched it until the fruit was ripe, then we tore down the fence and raided the orchard. We didn't just pick the apples, we destroyed the trees." (A bit of revenge.) The guards were yelling, "Stop or we'll shoot." They both laughed. No one listened, they weren't going to shoot anybody. Doesn't mean the war was funny, but the funny bits were more likely to be shared and enjoyed. Hence Hogan's Heroes. (I've since heard of mistreatment in the DP camps, but not from the two guys I knew. )
I worked a movie with Neville Brand. I asked him what it was like? He said, "All I remember is waiting behind a rock on a beach to meet some guy." He might've been putting me on. He was one of the most decorated American soldiers of the war. But look at his war record, where would there be a beach?
Sorry, but there WAS a steam room in at least one episode. Episode 1-01 "The Informer". Hogan shows the informer around the tunnel complex, and when he shows him the steam room, he tells him that they eat very well, and since no one would believe a fat POW, then they had the steam room to help keep the pounds off.
The humor was so well done that I would love to see interviews with the writers if they exist.
Schultz was my favorite character. I quote him almost every day. I know nothing.
I recall turning on TV a couple of months back and an episode of the Nan from U.N.CL.E. was just starting, with John Banner as a guest star. Sgt. Schultz meets Dr Mallard (NCIS)!
In seventh grade band class (in 1972), we played the theme song. I played the tuba. I still love that song and the show!
Who is "Winer Klemperer"? His name was _Werner_ Klemperer (pronounced "VAIR-ner").
Thanks!
Another factoid: Both Werner K. and Howard Caine appeared in the 1961 movie Judgement at Nuremberg.
Also, while Klemperer was an accomplished violinist, Caine was also a gifted banjo musician and folk singer. I know, hard to imagine the Major belting out Appalachian tunes and strumming the banjo.
Sergeant Schultz, I know nothing, I see nothing, and I are here nothing, those things become classic ♥️🤗
This is on AMAZON and I've watched it all about 3 times so far....and will go through it again.. :) LOVE this show.
1) It was the *Germans* that would fail in whatever their plans were in a humorous way. The prisoners were plants: they stayed put, escaping temporarily to commit sabotage, then return back before roll call. Occasionally, they’d help someone escape, but they were usually someone special that wasn’t under Klink’s responsibility. The prisoners wanted Kline to stay, since it was easier to commit their espionage acts.
2) Colonel Kline was played by Werner Klemperer, not Weiner.
3) Clery’s character - Le Beau - was not a Nazi; he was a Frenchman.
Is it so hard to learn how to pronounce stalag correctly? Having watched this show as a kid a,l found the narrator's mispronunciation very distracting.
what you forgot is the ladies on hogans heroes......how many were there?? tiger, helga., russian were on a few times. french girl, women captured. 3 female spies. 3 female gestapo agents,
4:08 Jewish Nazi? Robert Clary was French by birth. The youngest of 14 children, he spent the war years in the Ottmuth and the Buchenwald concentration camps.
Bob Crane would have loved 'Ilsa'.
It's a real tragedy what happened to him.
Robert Clary was a French Jew. The role he played was a Frenchman-- not a nazi.
I always liked Werner Klemperer. I also like Leon Askin, Kathleen Freeman, Burkhalter's sister, John Banner, and Howard Caine.
I loved them all especially SGT Schultz.
Us too! Who comes in at second place?
John Banner is one of my favorite actors of all time. He could be very funny, yet he could make the viewer pay attention to someone or something else immediately after he finished his line.
LeBeau ( Robert Clary) wasn't a Jewish Nazi.
Such a great Series so much fun...but so much mystery about the death of bob crane prayers 4 them all..🙏🇺🇸🙏
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Never knew that all the actors who played Nazi characters on this show were all actually Jewish people . . . That really hit the top of my mind . . .
This place would break records for humanity books in every world if people of every kind could only get a long . . .
I’ve heard about the fact of Jewish actors playing nazis on the show
As one of the actors said “who better to make fun of the nazis than us Jews”
I like when hockshteter gets upset with hogan - who is this man!!!??
Vat iz zis man doing here?
“This is the most dangerous man in Germany”
My favorite character was Sargent Schultz. “I know NOTHING”, said Sargent Schultz!
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@@FactsVerse No, no! It's "I see nus-SINK! I know nus-SINK!"
Every so often in recent years I've responded to someone with "I know nussink" - people don't always get the reference.
There was a steam room in the pilot.
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@@FactsVerse I’ve seen them all. I have them all recorded. Hard to pick a favorite. I like the one where the Gestapo takes over and they need to frame the new Commandant by getting him to sign a fake surrender form for General Muler. The one where the German General knows Hogan’s birthday and his team ends up kidnapping the General in his own bomber. The first one with the Russian girl agent is good. All of them with her or Major Hochstetter.
The rifle carried by the camp guards is a Krag-Jorgensen. The Krag was adopted by the US military and quickly replaced, earning the Krag the nickname of the one-war rifle.
How about this fact?
Werner Klemperer's first name is pronounced VER-ner and not whatever you said.
The Beatles landed in the US in 1964 and "Beatle Mania" dates back to 1963, two years prior to the first airing of Hogan's Heroes, so the Liverpool accent was well known.
The camp set was also used in an episode of Mission: Impossible.
Banner was the best~ he made me laugh when he would see a pretty girl and say, hello baby~lol
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You should have mentioned there was a rl mass excape from german pow camp , they made multiple excape tunnels , made german outfits annd forged travel documents. This was made into the 1963 movie "the great excape". The twist in heros is though they could have excaped they remain to support the alied war effort undercover
My favorite was Shultz. He just wanted everyone to get along and be happy.
BEST SHOW EVER
Already knew these facts
Well, maybe , just maybe not everyone does. !!! Video wasn't made with just you in mind. 🤔
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@@FactsVerse 2nd season, 1st episode. ?? Maybe.
@@kmr9347 duh
@@daveerk6573 What " duh " all you got???
Clary played one of the POWs, not a German.
Never. Something else. Best of best.😂😂😂 Each one character better than the other. The inmates and the nazis. Klint and Schulz maybe the summit.
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My Holocaust survivor father loved the show and seeing the Nazis suffering a little defeat every week.
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@@FactsVerse Loved it, too. Most survivors did. It was comic relief. My father laughed every time Schultz came one. I think he reminded him of someone! And there was, of course, the element of catharsis.
Hogan's Heroes was one of my dad's favorite TV shows and I watched it with him all the time as I was growing up because a local station showed it on reruns a lot.
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@@FactsVerse The one about how they had to rob the bank in the local town to get the funds needed to pay a spy for a map to a military base after Klink accidently burned the funds the allied forces airdropped for them...that episode always made me laugh the most!
Liked the supporting characters. Especially Schultz, Leboy, Newkirk, and the General.
I used to laugh when Kinchloe would do Hitler's voice on the radio!
In one episode, someone even suggested that he impersonate Hitler!
He just gives a sardonic look and then I think they got Carter to do it.
I always thought that is was to make fun of the Nazi's (notice I didn't say Germans) as being somewhat buffoons.
Me too!
One big problem: they weren't. Ask the families of those who fought them and of those he murdered.
3:12 They showed the underground steam room, among other this, in one of the early episodes.
I must connect with every character in a sitcom in order for me to fully enjoy it. HH was one of a few that I watched every episode like I did with M*A*S*H. That was fun, thanks.
It took me years to realize Col. Klink’s was associated with jail/prison.
"HOGAN !!" - "KLINK YOU IDIOT !!" - "DISMISSED !!" Great show. Colonel Klink my favorite.
Klink! You Eeeeedeeeeeeot!
Right off the bat, you got the premise wrong of the series that they were trying to escape each episode. Did you ever even watch the series?
How ridiculous: they never tried to escape and never failed in humorous ways
How can you do a video on a series and misrepresent the whole theme of the show? 😠
Werner Klemper was definitely an accomplished musical talent. I saw him in the early 70s in “The Sound of Music” at the Dorthy Chandler in LA. His voice was amazing! Presto Change-o!
Werner and John sang a Christmas duet together on a TV show. I thought that was remarkable in itself.
they did show the steam room in one episode, they always came back from their escapes.
Who wrote this script?
Robert Clary's character was neither Jewish nor a Nazi, and calling Clary a "Jewish Nazi" in the script was an unfortunate choice, to say the least.