My late father was a WW2 veteran from Australia. He served from 1941 until wars end. He had continual nightmares until he passed away in 2010. BUT! He absolutely loved this show! He would laugh his head off & good old Sgt Schultz was his favourite!🤣
My dad was reconnaissance for Canadian troops and lost the bottom of his legs in Holland… He loved the show and the others of the period including the longest day… But he never could watch saving Private Ryan… I think that one hit too close to home.
Did you know that Werner Klemperer aka Col Klink actually won an Emmy for his portrayal of Kink..The same year Leonard Nimoy aka Spock and a few other tv stars was up too...'Kink' beat out 'Spock' for the ward....Sad that John Banner aka 'Shultz' never won..
@@pallen49 there are 3 British shows Dads Army It A,int half Hot Mum and ALLO ALLO all made by the BBC which all feature WW2 themes even the Americans can understand that type of comedy , my late Grandfather who served in North Africa 1942/44 but loved the show IT A,INT HALF HOT MUM about a concert party serving in INDIA and he remembers similar shows being put on for the troops at that time , very funny indeed now not very PC
"Shultz, do you think your old boss will give you your old job back, huh? 😃" "Why not, *I'm the boss* 😁" "....🧐.....You *own* the Shatzy Toy Company? 😯" 😅😅
@@mikeshearer1250 volt? 🤣 Actually, it should be 'vol' but that's incorrect too. The word is actually 'jawohl' which merely sounds like 'ya vol' to non Germans.
Grandfather in the Pacific, Great Uncle in Europe. I was a kid on the floor, they were drinking old Milwaukee. I remember watching this, and every other comedy about the war. They could laugh about war. But never spoke seriously about it. It was an untouched topic. I've researched. I know facts. But their human story, that history is lost in my family. I think about it often.
They should show the fully restored video somewhere. Years ago, when high definition was brand new, The "Hogan's Heroes" films were digitized. Bing Crosby had the foresight to film the shows in widescreen format and then cut it down for TV. The original film is so much sharper than what we saw on TV originally. Directv had a channel just for HD content almost 20 years ago and showed the restored video. You could see things that were off screen back in the 60s, and the picture was sharp enough for you see the individual hairs on peoples' heads.
The HD remasters were cropped to 1.66 with small sidebars as 1.72 was too much from 4:3, but they did significantly improve the picture quality using the original film as the source compared to OTA/VHS.
Id have loved to see a special ending episode where pattons tanks did push in the gates and hogan was free to tell klink all they did during the war and how klink was instrumental in the victory,so he and Schultz were free to just go home....😊
I thought about a real ending for Hogans Hero's and thought the way to end it was reveal that Schultz wasn't so stupid, he knew what Hogan was doing but did nothing because he hated the Nazi's and it was the perfect cover for his work smuggling Jews into Switzerland. Of course with Germany collapsing and the SS just killing random people he needs Hogans help to hide all the extra jews he is moving, Hogan is worried about all the prisoners getting shot and Klink is more worried than normal about getting shot! This only ends when Patton's tanks arrive.
@@grogery1570 You're right about Shultz in that even though his trademark line is "I know nothing", he actually does and is perfectly aware of what Hogan and crew is doing, but choosing to do nothing about it as he hates what Hitler is doing, and the fact that they took over his toy factory to repurpose it for Herr Dumkauf's war effort.
My Grandpa was the HNIC of delousing showers at Belzec during the war, how he would laugh and slap his knee watching Hogans Heroes programme is such a fond memory. He passed peacefully in his sleep at age 102 in 2015 having lived a full and happy life. RIP Grandpa
When I was little in the early 70’s I would watch this with my Dad. He was from 🇩🇪 Freiburg. We would laugh and laugh. It took the sting out of the stigma I endured as a little girl when people found out and their children weren’t allowed to play with me anymore. Schulz was my favourite, of course he owned a toy factory ❤😂🎉
I'm sorry you had to go through that. It reminds me of that scene from the Captain America movie. "Did you know the first country that Germany invaded was its own." People forget most citizens aren't guilty of anything but trying to survive their radical government. I hope you cherish those moments with your dad. They are precious.
@@benkayvfalsifier3817 Not sure I agree with you about Nazi Germany. The Nazis were wildly popular in the 1930s. Not so much in the mid 1940s. But, the first people to go to the first concentration camp were the liberals and intelligencia (lawyers, professors, etc.) who opposed the Nazis. This was years before the Jews were sent there.
@@benkayvfalsifier3817 From your quote, "People forget most citizens aren't guilty of anything but trying to survive their radical government." I was replying to your statement. But, my point was that there were some people who were in alignment with your quote but the great majority were pro-Nazi when Hitler came to power. I hope I made that clear now...
@@Lerxstification that’s a stupid comment. It has nothing to do with wokeness. Some people don’t find humor in facism, a war that saw millions of Jews exterminated, or that the NAZi’s were these bumbling idiots. My Grandfather was a displaced person from Austria in WW1 and enlisted during WW2. He was a translator for the USA and it’s how he earned his citizenship. He became a raging alcoholic to try and forget the horrors he saw. He would “drink himself sober” buying a bottle of whiskey and a case of beer. He would drink the whiskey first (Corby’s) He would spill some on the kitchen table drawing patterns, he would tell us grandkids to watch, take his zippo and ligut the whiskey on fire, then light a cigarette (camel filter less) from that. We would ooh and aah when he did that. In his heavy accent he would then say in like a chant, “Andrew, Jaucqe-wa, Jim Gobolabbi” We never knew what it meant as kids but we would repeat it back which brought a tear to his eye. They were his buddies from the war we later found out and he was toasting them. When he finished the whiskey he would start in the case of beer. By the time he finished that? He was sober. My Uncle fought in the Mediterranean campaign against Mussolini and his Fascist regime. When Italy surrendered he and some of his buddies “borrowed” a German PT boat and took a bunch of girls and Italian wine to celebrate iin the Mediterranean. Nearly got themselves blown out of the water by the Navy. When the MP’s caught them they spent the rest of war in the brig unti Japan surrendered and the war ended. Another Uncle in the Pacific campaign, before he passed away he and my Dad went to an air show. There they had a Douglas C-47. He said to my Dad “you know I took off and was flown in that plane 6 times? But I never landed in one!” He was a parachutist. Two of those times his plane was hit and they had to jump early, landing in the middle instead of behind enemy lines. The first time he and 2 others were the only survivors and had to sneak they’re way back. The second time he got picked up by a patrol. One of the guards fell asleep duting the night watch. He escaped and again snuck back through. He thought they would give him a leave after that. But because she now knew the terrain so well they sent him again. None of these men found humor in Hogans Heroes. So STFU, because you don’t know shit.
I remember when I had to stay home from school because I was sick back in the 70's that reruns would always be on in either the early or late afternoons.
Did ya know that actors who played Hocksteder, Shultz, Klink, and Burkhalter were Jews who survived WW2? At age-76, I like to retire at night smilin', so enjoy watchin' Hogan's Heroes.
Well, Klink, who was played by Werner Klemperer, is an interesting case when it comes to him being a Jew. He was only HALF Jewish (if one considers it a race and not a religion) as his father was Jewish and his mother was not. If it's by religion, he became a Catholic for a long time, but then converted to Judaism.
I guess that would not be funny to him - those were very grim days indeed. And there were the 76 who escaped from that POW camp in Sagan in East Germany and 50 were murdered by the Gestapo. To someone who lived at that time, there was no humor at all. Or as Schultz would say Ï see NOTHING funny about this.
dad would not watch this show. for every 15 germans that died in ww2, 85 allied died. The Germans fought better but they were just too grossly outnumbered. The Allied were the bumblers. The allied organized a pincher attack at Lemberg, but the general on the left flank wanted to be first for more glory, so he botched the attack, causing massive losses, including Edwin Graham. The defending general, was far better prepared, and even predicted the allied moves. The allied attacked the city of Sofie Bulgaria, then thought they would do it again in two weeks, but that time, the German's had their Messerschmitt in action, in November, 1943, and shot down a bomber, shooting into the fishbowl front, killing Lt. Charles Graham. The things practically had a fishbowl on the front, and now, they were getting attacked from the front, not from behind. It was a disaster. Dad lost one brother at Sofie, Bulgaria, and the other brother at Lemberg, France. Three brothers, buried in three different countries. None had children. Dad adopted children.
My mom, a WW2, nurse in France wouldn’t let us watch Hogans Heroes. Nothing funny about Nazis. We had to watch Dean Martin show, which was up against the show.So I concluded that Shultz should have sang more……
@@DulcimertunesIronically The Show was making fun of Prisoners of War and Besides tell that to Mel Brooks who I would remind you has been quoted as saying “The most potent humor is based on facts, reimagined or refashioned with absurdity. As a manner of political discourse, these jokes rob powerful people of their authority and respect. Yet, political satire often gives way to comic cruelty.” By being afraid to laugh at Nazis you grant them to much Power and make them out to be more than the jackbooted Thugs they were.
The comedian Andy Kindler had a pretty funny bit (on Dr. Katz I think) where he wondered how crazy the network pitch meeting for Hogan's Heroes was. The network execs are asking questions like, "it takes place in a world War 2 prison camp?""That's right, it's a comedy!" edit: dang now that I think about it was it Gilbert Gottfried? Don’t get old kids
Apparently the Jewish man who played Col. Wilhelm Klink only took the acting part if he could make the character extremely incompetent and fail at everything he did. Guy who played Sergeant Schultz was an Austrian Jew. And guy who played Corporal LeBeau was a Jew that actually spent time in a concentration camp and the Nazis killed 10 of his siblings. That’s why I watch hogans heroes. If Jews who experienced Nazi cruelty can then act in a show that makes fun of Nazis then I say it’s worth watching.
What a dark time in history along with 6 million people of Jewish culture lost their lives during the Holocaust and 65 million lives in WWII. My Grandfather would often weep when he would talk about the war. One of the aspects of the war he shared was the battle of the Bulge. For years he had fragments of shrapnel would fester up through his skin on his back.
@@martinfiedler4317 Expensive cars in Belgium like Minervas and Imperias were right hand drive, but cheaper cars were not. Same in italy and France, expensive cars were all RHD.
@@lawrencelewis2592 No, I was thinking of the first phase of the Battle or France. When the British Expeditionary Force had to leave their equipment in the field to evacuate to Dunkirk. Sorry for not clarifying that. (Stupid joke anyway; I would starve, if I were a comedian)
Interesting... this could be definitive proof of some kind of carelessly made war propaganda. If they'd have been caught, they would have surely been executed! Perhaps the film was just loaded backwards.
@@martinfiedler4317 Ah yes, I should have thought of that. In the book "Night of the Generals" it was quite a status symbol for German officers in Paris to be seen in an English car. But still, shouldn't it have had a license plate withe a WH prefix?
I remember this episode! It was fantastic but of course there was much more setup to finesse the outcome. I was a freshman in the last year of Junior High School. Nobody had ever heard of such a thing as "Middle School" back then.
it's funny how we feel about these things...We used to have a Monday Night Football group. One of the ringleaders was NYFD. He didn't make it out of the south tower on 9/11. We tried one more night, a couple years later.... but.... it disbanded.
@@DMS-pq8 Hocksteter knew that Hogan should not have the apparent run of the camp. He didn't understand why Klink would allow Hogan such liberties. Even General Burkhalter rarely questioned Hogan showing up every time he was there. Only Hocksteter questioned it and was bothered by it.
Great acting and Great Actors. Schulz should get a lifetime Oscar. Brilliant comedy series at the time. and Tunnels and secret passages..! Stalag 13 the original movie is Excellent Movie also.
I loved 😍 this show was a big fan, ❤ very funny especially Schultz, i see nothing, nothing! Got to remember the era when they were doing it ❤❤ cheers from Australia 🇦🇺 😂 😅 😊
2:28 You can see the electric power poles for the neighborhood beyond the set, plus it's supposed to be winter time and yet all the trees have leaves. .....not to mention the Southern California palm tress in the background.
If you have a keen ear for german speakers you can even tell that some of them are actually not native german speakers at all. I think they might have taken american citizens and made them *pretend* they were german!! 😱😱
My grandfather was in the french army in 1940 he was taken prisoner until the end of the war. He loved this show. He passed away in1999. Rest in peace.
If Schulz's company was the biggest in its industry in the entire country, he probably wouldn't have been serving as an NCO...he would've been given an officer's commission like so many other industrialists were. Then again, most of them were SS, and I don't see Schulz belonging to that organization. So to my way of thinking he was offered an SS commission and outright refused it, and when he was conscripted back into military service he was 'red-tagged' never to progress beyond NCO rank.
There's some implied backstory that we don't get, the government expropriated his factory and drafted him as an NCO, instead of just ordering him to switch to war production and leaving him in charge, and he's only "hoping" they give him his factory back, it isn't assured. In more than one episode, he also openly expresses monarchist sympathies for the Kaiser, and occasionally makes derisive comments about Hitler and the Nazis. It seems possible he is being punished for perceived disloyalty to the new regime
How is the coloration on this so perfect? 5:00 St Paul Minnesota KSTP channel 5 for a long time this was the go-to show, as an American Jewish kid some relatives bristled at this show normalizing Nazis not behaving like beasts.
To have your cast considered for an Emmy, your show has to pay a fee (or someone has to pay), to be considered. At $250-$300 per category. So, nothing about the awards a real. It's like a beauty contest for the best actor, whom had the fee paid. In fact, Michael Richards(Seinfield), paid his own fee, at least the first time. that's over $1,000 for 4 submissions.
I am shocked that no one left the camp.... I could see Schultz walking down the road with a few of the allied guys.. The first check point the got to would be so confused..
I think Hogan had put all the regular prisoners under instruction not to leave. Klink was so malleable that they didn't want him to get the sack (or worse).
I liked when on the occasion, Klink and Schulz actually spoke German. 99% of the time, the cast would speak English with a German accent (Bob Crane had the most difficulty doing this).
@@MrPatrickworthington Obviously. I am referring to all of the "Germans". Be it prison guards, townspeople, Hochsteter, Burchhalter, his sister, etc. none of them would utter a word of German, they simply used a German-English accent. Whenever Crane had to pretend to be a Nazi, his German-English accent was horrible. At least, Newkirk and carter could do the accent very well. Even Kinch did a great accent. There were a few episodes where Klink and Schulltz said a few words in German and that was very appreciated. Did you ever see Combat!?. The Germans never spoke English to make it so realistic.
3:42)The left collar has the leaf of a Standartenfuhrer. Equal to Oberst (Colonel).The leaf was on both collars.The SS was worn by all ranks from Obersturmbannfuhrer (Lieu Tenant Colonel) and below.
It's a fucking comedy. Chill out. Out if respect, many motion pictures will not wear the right credentials. It's actually illegal for the Hollywood to use exact accurate u.s. military uniforms.
That show was hard sell at the time...I wasn't allowed to watch it at first. Dad was a ww2 vet and those folks didn't see the humor in it. In time I watched it and had the lunch box. But I do see dad's point and I can understand the dislike.
My late father was a WW2 veteran from Australia. He served from 1941 until wars end. He had continual nightmares until he passed away in 2010. BUT! He absolutely loved this show! He would laugh his head off & good old Sgt Schultz was his favourite!🤣
Did he see Dad’s Army, It Ain’t Half Hot Mum and ‘Allo ‘Allo! on the ABC?
BOB WAS FAR TOO YOUNG
BLESS
Hogan’s Hero’s was very popular in Germany after the war, Seinfeld wasn’t popular like here in the States.
The actor who played LeBeau was a French Jew who survived a concentration camp.
@@davidgromer3525 I did actually know that & was in Days Of Our Lives forever!
The german dub is perfect, they have regional accents. Schultz is Bavarian and Klink East German. Both perfectly fitting!
Ans dont forget Frau kalinke!
thats because the actors were germans Klemperer from Berlin ans Banner was an Austrian
@@JoachimDeckart But they didn't dub themselves, at least not in the 1994 version that's most known on German TV.
The last line from Klink was brilliant.
Close the gate. the war is back on. Cracks me up every time.
Yes, that's the best line in this segment. :)
Grew up watching this show and still love seeing the clips.
I grew up watching it with my grandmother on cable. She and my mom got me hooked on the old shows.
My dad was reconnaissance for Canadian troops and lost the bottom of his legs in Holland… He loved the show and the others of the period including the longest day… But he never could watch saving Private Ryan… I think that one hit too close to home.
My father was in the Home Gaurd during Germany occupation of Denmark. He absolutely loved this program
Thank you for protecting our Danish Homeland and Heritage! I salute you and your father!
@@graydenmitchell7970You’re doing a piss poor job at protecting it now though
Klink and Schultz in my opinion are the real stars of the show.
yes i do agree the Americans sending something up a bit like Allo Allo if your an American watch ALLO ALLO
Did you know that Werner Klemperer aka Col Klink actually won an Emmy for his portrayal of Kink..The same year Leonard Nimoy aka Spock and a few other tv stars was up too...'Kink' beat out 'Spock' for the ward....Sad that John Banner aka 'Shultz' never won..
@@pallen49 there are 3 British shows Dads Army It A,int half Hot Mum and ALLO ALLO all made by the BBC which all feature WW2 themes even the Americans can understand that type of comedy , my late Grandfather who served in North Africa 1942/44 but loved the show IT A,INT HALF HOT MUM about a concert party serving in INDIA and he remembers similar shows being put on for the troops at that time , very funny indeed now not very PC
@@RobertKincaid-vq3hn All those that are too PC for IAHHM should just SHADDUP! Oh dear, how sad, never mind.
Schultz RULES!!!
Remember that nearly every actor playing the Nazis was Jewish. They had only one rule, the Nazis always had to look stupid.
Or rather that the Nazis had to always lose
And the French actor who played corporal lebeau actually spent time in a nazi concentration camp
Judea declared war on Germany in 1933.
These are soldiers some of them where nazis yes but not all of the German military where nazis.
@123452315 who won that 1?
Schulz being genuinely happy about the war being over. ❤
He’s like a little school kid who finds out he has a snow day 😂😂
Well, Hogans Heroes was funny. My grandfather was a RCAF.. WW2 combat vet. And he loved the show. And so did I…. ❤
The facts that they made movies and shows like this so close after the actual events is amazing.
"Shultz, do you think your old boss will give you your old job back, huh? 😃" "Why not, *I'm the boss* 😁" "....🧐.....You *own* the Shatzy Toy Company? 😯" 😅😅
Ya volt😂😂
Actually, it's 'Schatze.'
@@mikeshearer1250 volt? 🤣 Actually, it should be 'vol' but that's incorrect too. The word is actually 'jawohl' which merely sounds like 'ya vol' to non Germans.
This was one of the best twists in the entire history of the show.
@@retroguy9494 Schatzi, not Schatze. ;)
It's a shame the show never got to have a final episode where everything was wrapped up. So many 60's sitcoms just ended with no real series finale
I hear ya, but it was a product of the time it was made. Have a like, as symbolism of this comment’s finale.
Grandfather in the Pacific, Great Uncle in Europe. I was a kid on the floor, they were drinking old Milwaukee.
I remember watching this, and every other comedy about the war.
They could laugh about war. But never spoke seriously about it. It was an untouched topic.
I've researched. I know facts. But their human story, that history is lost in my family.
I think about it often.
They should show the fully restored video somewhere. Years ago, when high definition was brand new, The "Hogan's Heroes" films were digitized. Bing Crosby had the foresight to film the shows in widescreen format and then cut it down for TV. The original film is so much sharper than what we saw on TV originally. Directv had a channel just for HD content almost 20 years ago and showed the restored video. You could see things that were off screen back in the 60s, and the picture was sharp enough for you see the individual hairs on peoples' heads.
None of what you said was true.
Even on Klink's head? 😅
The HD remasters were cropped to 1.66 with small sidebars as 1.72 was too much from 4:3, but they did significantly improve the picture quality using the original film as the source compared to OTA/VHS.
Id have loved to see a special ending episode where pattons tanks did push in the gates and hogan was free to tell klink all they did during the war and how klink was instrumental in the victory,so he and Schultz were free to just go home....😊
❤from MALAYSIA🇲🇾
@@albertf.ismail2605 I hope that a fan can come up with a fan fiction episode for Hogan's Heroes liberating the camp and officially ending the war.
I thought about a real ending for Hogans Hero's and thought the way to end it was reveal that Schultz wasn't so stupid, he knew what Hogan was doing but did nothing because he hated the Nazi's and it was the perfect cover for his work smuggling Jews into Switzerland. Of course with Germany collapsing and the SS just killing random people he needs Hogans help to hide all the extra jews he is moving, Hogan is worried about all the prisoners getting shot and Klink is more worried than normal about getting shot! This only ends when Patton's tanks arrive.
@@grogery1570 You're right about Shultz in that even though his trademark line is "I know nothing", he actually does and is perfectly aware of what Hogan and crew is doing, but choosing to do nothing about it as he hates what Hitler is doing, and the fact that they took over his toy factory to repurpose it for Herr Dumkauf's war effort.
My Grandpa was the HNIC of delousing showers at Belzec during the war, how he would laugh and slap his knee watching Hogans Heroes programme is such a fond memory.
He passed peacefully in his sleep at age 102 in 2015 having lived a full and happy life. RIP Grandpa
I am so lucky to have the complete series. It is so funny!
I’m full blood Dakota Sioux and really enjoy Hogans Heroes, even the reruns! They make the NAZI SS look so foolish! LOL
Choctaw here.
Punjabi here and we laugh our assesoff
That is nice, not very flattering for the Allies... grabbed a few of those after....
Do you enjoy the show, F Troop?
I hear the "British version" of this (though completely different) is wildly popular all over the world too.
It was like the early mash, but it was so funny. Those guys had it all figured out.
When I was little in the early 70’s I would watch this with my Dad. He was from 🇩🇪 Freiburg. We would laugh and laugh. It took the sting out of the stigma I endured as a little girl when people found out and their children weren’t allowed to play with me anymore. Schulz was my favourite, of course he owned a toy factory ❤😂🎉
I'm sorry you had to go through that. It reminds me of that scene from the Captain America movie. "Did you know the first country that Germany invaded was its own." People forget most citizens aren't guilty of anything but trying to survive their radical government.
I hope you cherish those moments with your dad. They are precious.
@@benkayvfalsifier3817 Not sure I agree with you about Nazi Germany. The Nazis were wildly popular in the 1930s. Not so much in the mid 1940s. But, the first people to go to the first concentration camp were the liberals and intelligencia (lawyers, professors, etc.) who opposed the Nazis. This was years before the Jews were sent there.
@@robbrown4621 So basically they're own people. Where are we disagreeing?
@@benkayvfalsifier3817 From your quote, "People forget most citizens aren't guilty of anything but trying to survive their radical government." I was replying to your statement. But, my point was that there were some people who were in alignment with your quote but the great majority were pro-Nazi when Hitler came to power. I hope I made that clear now...
@@robbrown4621 Ah, I understand now. And you are correct.
"SCHUUULZ ! DIE TORE ZU. DER KRICH GEHT WEITER"
I used to watch this show with my Father before he passed in 2009.
Did he know they were Jewish . It was pretty cool in my opinion . Using Jewish actors to be nazi and Germans troops
Ditto. It was my late father's favourite show. Happy memories.
Before he passed. Well I hope so.
on a good note least your dad does not have to see how crap usa is comming out
I don’t know why they don’t this kind of comedy anymore. A true American creation - funny, fantastic and just terrific humor! 😅
Wokeness does not approve
@@Lerxstification that’s a stupid comment. It has nothing to do with wokeness. Some people don’t find humor in facism, a war that saw millions of Jews exterminated, or that the NAZi’s were these bumbling idiots. My Grandfather was a displaced person from Austria in WW1 and enlisted during WW2. He was a translator for the USA and it’s how he earned his citizenship. He became a raging alcoholic to try and forget the horrors he saw. He would “drink himself sober” buying a bottle of whiskey and a case of beer. He would drink the whiskey first (Corby’s) He would spill some on the kitchen table drawing patterns, he would tell us grandkids to watch, take his zippo and ligut the whiskey on fire, then light a cigarette (camel filter less) from that. We would ooh and aah when he did that. In his heavy accent he would then say in like a chant, “Andrew, Jaucqe-wa, Jim Gobolabbi” We never knew what it meant as kids but we would repeat it back which brought a tear to his eye. They were his buddies from the war we later found out and he was toasting them. When he finished the whiskey he would start in the case of beer. By the time he finished that? He was sober.
My Uncle fought in the Mediterranean campaign against Mussolini and his Fascist regime. When Italy surrendered he and some of his buddies “borrowed” a German PT boat and took a bunch of girls and Italian wine to celebrate iin the Mediterranean. Nearly got themselves blown out of the water by the Navy. When the MP’s caught them they spent the rest of war in the brig unti Japan surrendered and the war ended. Another Uncle in the Pacific campaign, before he passed away he and my Dad went to an air show. There they had a Douglas C-47. He said to my Dad “you know I took off and was flown in that plane 6 times? But I never landed in one!” He was a parachutist. Two of those times his plane was hit and they had to jump early, landing in the middle instead of behind enemy lines. The first time he and 2 others were the only survivors and had to sneak they’re way back. The second time he got picked up by a patrol. One of the guards fell asleep duting the night watch. He escaped and again snuck back through. He thought they would give him a leave after that. But because she now knew the terrain so well they sent him again.
None of these men found humor in Hogans Heroes. So STFU, because you don’t know shit.
The Writers are the real stars of this Show. Excellent Writing.
This documentary has very high quality footage.
Love this show......still watch it nightly. Classic TV is the best thing on right now and will never get too old .
Seven of my Family have served 1944 to day 2024,my self USMC .
Even Colonel Klink can't stand the sight of the SS.
As a kid this was a must watch show...😂
I remember when I had to stay home from school because I was sick back in the 70's that reruns would always be on in either the early or late afternoons.
It aired in reruns in my neck of the woods in Canada for several years. It was great!
Did ya know that actors who played Hocksteder, Shultz, Klink, and Burkhalter were Jews who survived WW2? At age-76, I like to retire at night smilin', so enjoy watchin' Hogan's Heroes.
Well, Klink, who was played by Werner Klemperer, is an interesting case when it comes to him being a Jew. He was only HALF Jewish (if one considers it a race and not a religion) as his father was Jewish and his mother was not. If it's by religion, he became a Catholic for a long time, but then converted to Judaism.
My dad who was a WW2 veteran hated Hogan’s Heroes.
I guess that would not be funny to him - those were very grim days indeed. And there were the 76 who escaped from that POW camp in Sagan in East Germany and 50 were murdered by the Gestapo. To someone who lived at that time, there was no humor at all. Or as Schultz would say Ï see NOTHING funny about this.
dad would not watch this show. for every 15 germans that died in ww2, 85 allied died. The Germans fought better but they were just too grossly outnumbered. The Allied were the bumblers. The allied organized a pincher attack at Lemberg, but the general on the left flank wanted to be first for more glory, so he botched the attack, causing massive losses, including Edwin Graham. The defending general, was far better prepared, and even predicted the allied moves. The allied attacked the city of Sofie Bulgaria, then thought they would do it again in two weeks, but that time, the German's had their Messerschmitt in action, in November, 1943, and shot down a bomber, shooting into the fishbowl front, killing Lt. Charles Graham. The things practically had a fishbowl on the front, and now, they were getting attacked from the front, not from behind. It was a disaster. Dad lost one brother at Sofie, Bulgaria, and the other brother at Lemberg, France. Three brothers, buried in three different countries. None had children. Dad adopted children.
My mom, a WW2, nurse in France wouldn’t let us watch Hogans Heroes. Nothing funny about Nazis. We had to watch Dean Martin show, which was up against the show.So I concluded that Shultz should have sang more……
She was right
@@DulcimertunesIronically The Show was making fun of Prisoners of War and Besides tell that to Mel Brooks who I would remind you has been quoted as saying “The most potent humor is based on facts, reimagined or refashioned with absurdity. As a manner of political discourse, these jokes rob powerful people of their authority and respect. Yet, political satire often gives way to comic cruelty.” By being afraid to laugh at Nazis you grant them to much Power and make them out to be more than the jackbooted Thugs they were.
The comedian Andy Kindler had a pretty funny bit (on Dr. Katz I think) where he wondered how crazy the network pitch meeting for Hogan's Heroes was. The network execs are asking questions like, "it takes place in a world War 2 prison camp?""That's right, it's a comedy!"
edit: dang now that I think about it was it Gilbert Gottfried? Don’t get old kids
Apparently the Jewish man who played Col. Wilhelm Klink only took the acting part if he could make the character extremely incompetent and fail at everything he did. Guy who played Sergeant Schultz was an Austrian Jew. And guy who played Corporal LeBeau was a Jew that actually spent time in a concentration camp and the Nazis killed 10 of his siblings. That’s why I watch hogans heroes. If Jews who experienced Nazi cruelty can then act in a show that makes fun of Nazis then I say it’s worth watching.
@@sayhi2johny I wish she was around to tell her. Thanks, that’s interesting.
I still watch HH today. Very funny still after all these years! 😂😂
What a dark time in history along with 6 million people of Jewish culture lost their lives during the Holocaust and 65 million lives in WWII. My Grandfather would often weep when he would talk about the war. One of the aspects of the war he shared was the battle of the Bulge. For years he had fragments of shrapnel would fester up through his skin on his back.
Interesting how that Mercedes is right hand drive and has an English license plate.
Probably captured in Belgium 😉
@@martinfiedler4317 Expensive cars in Belgium like Minervas and Imperias were right hand drive, but cheaper cars were not. Same in italy and France, expensive cars were all RHD.
@@lawrencelewis2592 No, I was thinking of the first phase of the Battle or France. When the British Expeditionary Force had to leave their equipment in the field to evacuate to Dunkirk. Sorry for not clarifying that.
(Stupid joke anyway; I would starve, if I were a comedian)
Interesting... this could be definitive proof of some kind of carelessly made war propaganda. If they'd have been caught, they would have surely been executed! Perhaps the film was just loaded backwards.
@@martinfiedler4317 Ah yes, I should have thought of that. In the book "Night of the Generals" it was quite a status symbol for German officers in Paris to be seen in an English car. But still, shouldn't it have had a license plate withe a WH prefix?
Richard dawson was a great man
"Who loves you, and who do you love!?!" 😎
I remember this episode! It was fantastic but of course there was much more setup to finesse the outcome. I was a freshman in the last year of Junior High School. Nobody had ever heard of such a thing as "Middle School" back then.
This was a great series.
Love Hogan's Heros
I love that Sgt Schultz is actually a rich guy owning Germany's biggest toy company.
Grandma passed 31st of july... we were watching thing before then.. i just havent had the heart to continue... i know i should.. just odd..
it's funny how we feel about these things...We used to have a Monday Night Football group. One of the ringleaders was NYFD. He didn't make it out of the south tower on 9/11. We tried one more night, a couple years later.... but.... it disbanded.
Hocksteter was so funny😅
Bah!!
Hochstädter
WHAT IS THIS MAN DOING HERE!!!
@@DMS-pq8 Hocksteter knew that Hogan should not have the apparent run of the camp. He didn't understand why Klink would allow Hogan such liberties. Even General Burkhalter rarely questioned Hogan showing up every time he was there. Only Hocksteter questioned it and was bothered by it.
2:29 Look at all those eucalypts in the background, one could almost think this was set in Australia!
Great Series.Sadly Bob Crane died very tragically.🙏🙏
Yea but he was a pretty big scumbag.
There’s not a bad episode of Hogan’s Heroes.
Loved this show when I was a kid Schulz was my favorite
I lost it when the Luftwaffe General said: "The what is what?"
Love the show.
"War is Over ( if you want it )" - John Lennon
They just don't make good TV like this anymore.
This was the most Greek show ever produced.
Here in Utah, we have not been told the war is over...If we get a television station, things might change.
Oh boyest of boys! you have no idea what is waiting for you!
Great acting and Great Actors. Schulz should get a lifetime Oscar. Brilliant comedy series at the time. and Tunnels and secret passages..! Stalag 13 the original movie is Excellent Movie also.
I loved 😍 this show was a big fan, ❤ very funny especially Schultz, i see nothing, nothing! Got to remember the era when they were doing it ❤❤ cheers from Australia 🇦🇺 😂 😅 😊
“ I see nothing!” Schultz says, turning and walking away from the POW camp door.
I loved this show as a kid. I love this show as an old man, of 68.
2:28 You can see the electric power poles for the neighborhood beyond the set, plus it's supposed to be winter time and yet all the trees have leaves. .....not to mention the Southern California palm tress in the background.
You're right 😂. Look for the palm trees above and a little to the right from the red & white striped guard house 🌴🌴
😂 I see the palm trees
If you have a keen ear for german speakers you can even tell that some of them are actually not native german speakers at all. I think they might have taken american citizens and made them *pretend* they were german!! 😱😱
Same with the MASH set. But as a 7-8yr old I didn’t notice nor care.
@@JonDoe-ln6nl Right. Same here. It's just fun to notice it as an adult.
I love this show🎼🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
We WISH that there was a 2 Hour Movie 🎬 🎞 🎥 🎦 📽 about the Last Days of the War !!! 😊😊😊
Classic show for sure.
I'm laughing all the way :)
I still don't know what to make of this very strange tv series some 55 years later.
My grandfather was in the french army in 1940 he was taken prisoner until the end of the war. He loved this show. He passed away in1999. Rest in peace.
If Schulz's company was the biggest in its industry in the entire country, he probably wouldn't have been serving as an NCO...he would've been given an officer's commission like so many other industrialists were.
Then again, most of them were SS, and I don't see Schulz belonging to that organization. So to my way of thinking he was offered an SS commission and outright refused it, and when he was conscripted back into military service he was 'red-tagged' never to progress beyond NCO rank.
Schultz was way too nice to even be a prison guard let alone the SS.
Given he was a wealthy man the job of a P.O.W. SGT may have been relatively cushy.
@@MrPatrickworthington If you have ever watched the series it WAS cushy. Schultz had it pretty easy actually.
There's some implied backstory that we don't get, the government expropriated his factory and drafted him as an NCO, instead of just ordering him to switch to war production and leaving him in charge, and he's only "hoping" they give him his factory back, it isn't assured. In more than one episode, he also openly expresses monarchist sympathies for the Kaiser, and occasionally makes derisive comments about Hitler and the Nazis. It seems possible he is being punished for perceived disloyalty to the new regime
Some of the vetrans that spent time in a german pow camp hated the show because it wasn't fun and games in those camps.
Allied POW's got far less brutal treatment than the opposite. And god forbid you go east to Russia.
My uncle died in a pow camp. It was his fault though, he got drunk and fell out of a guard tower
Ah, that never gets old! 🤣
😊 Brilliant.
The guard standing up again and the glasses are still standing around 😅
"The war is back on!" Too funny
" Shultz, close the gates. The war is back on" ! 🤣😆😆😂
A prison camp...run by a guy named Klink. Brilliant!👌
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How is the coloration on this so perfect? 5:00 St Paul Minnesota KSTP channel 5 for a long time this was the go-to show, as an American Jewish kid some relatives bristled at this show normalizing Nazis not behaving like beasts.
Actually all the Nazis in HH were played by Jews!
The war is back on! 🙌
Clink was the only one who got an Emmy
To have your cast considered for an Emmy, your show has to pay a fee (or someone has to pay), to be considered. At $250-$300 per category. So, nothing about the awards a real. It's like a beauty contest for the best actor, whom had the fee paid. In fact, Michael Richards(Seinfield), paid his own fee, at least the first time. that's over $1,000 for 4 submissions.
"Der Krieg... ist zu ende? DER KRIEG IST ZU ENDE! DER KRIEG IST ZU ENDE!!!"
Just genius . . . just TOOOOO funny! God luv 'em all, they were simply amazing, all of them. Oh, for simpler times.
When a war is over, both sides celebrate.
My favorite episode, sucking up on Shultz for a job.
Klink realized at that moment he had misjudged Shultz all along. Far from being a nobody he could bully, Shultz was a very wealthy and important man.
Loved watching this as a kid, Private Schultz - I see nothing, nothing at all!
I am shocked that no one left the camp.... I could see Schultz walking down the road with a few of the allied guys.. The first check point the got to would be so confused..
I think Hogan had put all the regular prisoners under instruction not to leave. Klink was so malleable that they didn't want him to get the sack (or worse).
I liked when on the occasion, Klink and Schulz actually spoke German. 99% of the time, the cast would speak English with a German accent (Bob Crane had the most difficulty doing this).
The Americans, Lebeau and Newkirk did not speak with a German accent since they were not German.
@@MrPatrickworthington Obviously. I am referring to all of the "Germans". Be it prison guards, townspeople, Hochsteter, Burchhalter, his sister, etc. none of them would utter a word of German, they simply used a German-English accent. Whenever Crane had to pretend to be a Nazi, his German-English accent was horrible. At least, Newkirk and carter could do the accent very well. Even Kinch did a great accent. There were a few episodes where Klink and Schulltz said a few words in German and that was very appreciated. Did you ever see Combat!?. The Germans never spoke English to make it so realistic.
3:42)The left collar has the leaf of a Standartenfuhrer. Equal to Oberst (Colonel).The leaf was on both collars.The SS was worn by all ranks from Obersturmbannfuhrer (Lieu Tenant Colonel) and below.
But the black algemeine ss uniform was put away for the duration of the war... Should be grey
@@Burninhellscrootoob He wore the Waffen Schutz Staffel Third Panzer Division uniform. AKA, The Death's Head. Look at the uniform cap.
Not decisive for the show.
@@leondillon8723 All SS caps had a Totenkopf badge, not just members of 3 SS-Panzerdivision "Totenkopf".
It's a fucking comedy. Chill out. Out if respect, many motion pictures will not wear the right credentials. It's actually illegal for the Hollywood to use exact accurate u.s. military uniforms.
3:19 “The what... is what?”
We watched Perry Coma ,he was catholic and the church said to watch it.
Damn, THIS should have been the way the series ended; events juuuust narrowly coinciding with that week of May, 1945.
" The What,is What!?"😅😅
"The what... is what?"
I give the krauts for at least being good snow skiers! * Cav *
Close the gates the wars back on lol😅
"Vat we were winning tha war!"
3:30 kinda weird timing for a laugh line 😅
game on
The what, is what?!
That show was hard sell at the time...I wasn't allowed to watch it at first. Dad was a ww2 vet and those folks didn't see the humor in it. In time I watched it and had the lunch box. But I do see dad's point and I can understand the dislike.
Funniest show ever
Schulzy made to u.s. and opened a hofsbrau house in Milwaukee.
" Guerra,Sombra,e água fresca gostava eles eram bastante divertidos " kkkk
I’m sure the one person who wouldn’t survive the end of the war would be that ss commander, since well the allies hated the ss
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