kraftiekortie wrote:
^I learned that from Hogan's Heroes. It sounded like Sgt. Schultz said "Yavult, Herr Commandant."
All the Nazi characters were played by Jews on that show.
One of my favorite shows as a kid.
Just looked up Warner Klemperer (who played Col.Klink)in Wiki. I read somewhere years ago that he was a "refugee from the Holocaust". Not quite true but sorta. He was a German Jew. His family immigrated to Los Angelos from Germany, but didnt exactly flee Germany. But it was good time to leave. The year was 1933, when Hitler came to power.
His dad was Otto Klemperer, who became a famous American symphony conductor (whom I had heard of). Werner's first cousin was Viktor Klemperer (hadnt heard of him). Who was a linguistics professor in Germany. Viktor stayed in the old country and became best know as a diarist. He chronicled life in Germany under the Kaiser, under the Weimar Republic, under the Nazi Regime, AND life in postwar Communist East Germany. Sounds like an interesting chronical!
Viktor narrowly avoided the death camps and being incinerated in the bombing of Dresden, and became a member of the Communist party in East Germany. And he was Col. Klink's first cousin! You learn sumpin every day.