Sundance Channel airing episodes and finding I can’t stop watching. Charming wartime comedy to say the least. Do you, (did you) enjoy the series or should I be court-marshaled, shot and sent to the Russian front?
Hogan’s Heroes
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My Dad hated it. He was a WWII infantryman and he said, "There's nothing funny about those sonofabitches.
Hah! My grandpa was an infantryman in WW2 in Europe and absolutely loved the show. Thought it was hilarious.
I always wondered about that. I recall my WW2 vet grandfather feeling the same way.
I’m unfamiliar with that pr0n.
Well...he must have been one miserable SOB. I always get a kick out of Veterans that can't try to find humor in whatever conflict they were in. HH, M.A.S.H. Good morning Vietnam, The Men Who Stare at Goats....etc. etc...
Have a little bit of sense of humor.
Ok, so we know you’re not a Veteran.
Funny thing is it’s a staple in Germany. Didn’t think it would fly there but I’d see it from time to time on a couple German channelsSundance Channel airing episodes and finding I can’t stop watching. Charming wartime comedy to say the least. Do you, (did you) enjoy the series or should I be court-marshaled, shot and sent to the Russian front?
Okay, so I served in Baghdad 2003-2004 so I felt just fine posting what I did.
My grandpa was a POW in Germany for 9 months during WWII and he thought it was funny. However, he didn’t think it was funny if his grandson didn’t clean his plate. Gramps was always bitter about a lack of food during his imprisonment.
There was a cartoon called the Hairbear Bunch that was the identical premise as Hogan. It featured animals in a zoo. Great cartoon!
There was a cartoon called the Hairbear Bunch that was the identical premise as Hogan. It featured animals in a zoo. Great cartoon!
Well, Robert Clary who played LeBeau, was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp during the war, and he had no problem with the show.
The show was not meant to portray the horror of that war. It was meant as a comedy that poked jokes at ZEE Germans.
Well...you can just live with the karma you just earned yourself.
I was kidding.
Though our neighbor growing up served in Italy during WW2. That's how he phrased it.
My grandfather spent about the same time in a POW camp in Germany. He ate a stick of butter with every dinner for the rest of his life.
My grandfather did this as well, but he did it during sweet corn season on the farm. How he lived to 86 makes me feel like I have a chance to make it that far.....
No thanks needed, but thank you. As a history buff, I felt it was my obligation.
We had a foreign exchange student staying for a year and he said it was his father's favorite show.
The accurate portrayal of POW camps and the stereotyping of Nazis and POWs is something I find extremely humerous. Just a damned laff a minute programming.
Werner Klemperer who played the commandant Klink (and won Emmys for doing so) was the son of a famous conductor and opera soprano. The father was Jewish and they fled Germany in 1935,
Even as a kid (and WW2 buff) I knew it was all BS but did enjoy the show.
For a very good adult version of what being a prisoner of war was really like - Stalag 17 is hard to beat. Other great films are The Great Escape and Grand Illusion.
Even as a kid (and WW2 buff) I knew it was all BS but did enjoy the show.
For a very good adult version of what being a prisoner of war was really like - Stalag 17 is hard to beat. Other great films are The Great Escape and Grand Illusion.
The Great Escape was a great movie. I still see Steve McQueen going over to pick up his baseball to see how close he could get to the fence and what his sight lines were from there.
Too bad your Dad missed out on my Dad's little rant on......let's see, how did he put it?......"those c@#ksucking Jap bastards" in the Filipino jungles.
And Nat, that is why his dad is pRt of the greatest generation...and you are a millennial Russian bot. May I suggest you get a life.Tell him:
Agreed. Good movies, but they didn't properly depict the harsh treatment our POW guys received at the hands of the Germans, particularly malnutrition, while German POWs brought here to the States lived the "Life Of Riley" with the same food and housing that their guards received along with never ending recreational activities while we had guys actually sent to Buchenwald and other death/slave labor camps.
As for how the Japanese treated our captured soldiers and fliers, may I recommend the easy and fascinating but alarming read "Fly Boys" by James Bradley (his Dad was an Iwo Jima flag raiser). Available at Thriftbooks.com at under $5.00. Unbelievable.
I know nothing...Sundance Channel airing episodes and finding I can’t stop watching. Charming wartime comedy to say the least. Do you, (did you) enjoy the series or should I be court-marshaled, shot and sent to the Russian front?
How do I say this politely...YOU'RE AN EFFING IDIOT!
Maybe his dad should've lightened up, Francis. It was a sitcom. Or as you spell in Russia, it was "humerous".
