It's campy, but concentrate on 1488 Nazi Punchers walking into a ghetto

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Nostalgia4Butts: Jun 1, 2006; WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

504 posted:

Schultz was in a death camp for realz, got tattooed and everything. Part of his agreement to take the role in HH was that the Germans could never "win" an episode (even for comedy purposes) and his character had to be shown expressing he believed Hitler was crazy, most commonly shown by the running joke where prisoners would all say something about Hitlers insanity, then all turn to Schultz who would let out a whistle while twirling his finger around his ear.

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No one is more pleased with the success of "Hogan's Heroes" in Germany than Werner Klemperer, who played Col. Klink. A German Jew who fled his native Cologne before the war, Mr. Klemperer says he helped make sure the program showed the German army in a bad light. "I told the writers that if they ever made Col. Klink the hero of the show, I would quit. I wanted to make sure Col. Klink got it every time."

Mr. Klemperer, 72, adds that when the show first started running in the 1960s, the producers heard some of the same complaints one now hears in Germany. "People said we shouldn't be making fun of that period of time."

But he, like other participants in the original series, says the show shouldn't be taken too seriously. Robert Clary, who played a French prisoner named "Le Beau" on the show was, in real life, imprisoned in concentration camps in Poland. "I was an out-of-work actor," he says. "It didn't matter who I played."

One German veteran who wrote to Kabel 1 takes an equally philosophical view. "I myself served in that stupid war, and I lost a leg," the viewer wrote. "But I never thought that someone could make that part of our history amusing. My compliments!"

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Nostalgia4Butts: Jun 1, 2006; WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

YOUR BOY GOT KNOCKED OUT

# ¿ Jan 30, 2017 03:24

Nostalgia4Butts: Jun 1, 2006; WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

Suicide Watch posted:

Time to petition the White House to recognize furries as a protected minority. Sean Spicer would definitely be on board, he's probably one himself

close enough

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Nostalgia4Butts: Jun 1, 2006; WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

Professor Bling posted:

A couple Nazis tried to have a meetup at a bar in Rockford, IL.

Two of them had entire cans of bear mace emptied into their faces in the parking lot.

I'm just sad I didn't do it myself.

proud of il today

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