Werner Klemperer and John Banner sing Silent night Robert Clary sings a French Carol

[rpannier]

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]

1. Thank you

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]

2. Clary is still with us.

He’ll be 94 on March 1.

[rpannier]

7. Thanks for that

I thought he had passed on

[homegirl]

3. Another musical statement...

"The Day Democracy Died" Sung by The Founding Fathers

[jg10003]

5. brilliant

[rpannier]

6. I saw that. Did not know that about Caine though

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]

8. repost - Jewish cast of Hogan's heroes

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]

9. Thanks for posting

[GeoWilliam750]

10. Thank you for posting

[Scarsdale]

11. All very talented singers.

This brought tears to my eyes. I enjoyed "Hogan's Heroes" for years, never knew their background stories. Thank you for posting this.