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Originally Posted by fireftr18
Did you realize that Hogan's Heroes was loosely based on Stalag 17?
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The main reason I tracked down S17 and watched it.
It's a great movie.
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Originally Posted by GoldenRivet
yep. lots of interesting trivia with that show.
like... Sgt Schulz actor John Banner left Austria with a traveling show before hostilities, while he was gone, crap hit the fan... ultimately his family died in a concentration camp.
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Lots of the characters were jewish and some of them had experiences in concentration camps.
Still one of my favorite shows of all time no matter where the actors came from.