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Related: About this forumWerner Klemperer and John Banner sing Silent night Robert Clary sings a French Carol
Couple of things about the three men
1. All three were Jewish
2. Banner and Clary spent time in a concentration camp
3. It was uncertain which one, Banner or Klemperer, would be Klink and which one would be Schultz
BunnyMcGee
(463 posts)for posting this. They are wonderful singers and I did not know Banner as well as Clary had been in CC during the war. Klemperer I knew had music skills, but I thought as a piano player. And his father, the orchestra conductor, my older brother has some vinyl albums.
edbermac
(15,947 posts)Hell be 94 on March 1.
rpannier
(24,338 posts)I thought he had passed on
homegirl
(1,433 posts)"The Day Democracy Died" Sung by The Founding Fathers
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rpannier
(24,338 posts)I read somewhere that Askin was the only one who ever went back to Germany, Klemperer and Banner never did
I think Askin died in either Germany or Austria
They all did a wonderful job on the show
The tattoo was why we never saw LeBeau in shortsleeves
jg10003
(976 posts)Clary spent three years in a concentration camp, his parents and other family members were killed there, and he has an identity tattoo from the camp on his arm.
John Banner had been held in a (pre-war) concentration camp and his family was killed during the war. He was born in Austria. In 1938 he was performing with an acting troupe in Switzerland when Hitler annexed Austria to Nazi Germany. Banner then immigrated to America.
Leon Askin (General Burkholder) was also in a pre-war French internment camp and his parents were killed at Treblinka.
Klemperer and his family left Germany in 1933. His father was a famous orchestra conductor, and his father's 1st cousin a famous scholar and diarist.
Howard Caine (Major Hochstetter) was a Jewish American.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)GeoWilliam750
(2,522 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)This brought tears to my eyes. I enjoyed "Hogan's Heroes" for years, never knew their background stories. Thank you for posting this.