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60. They all loved playing the Germans as nincompoops.

Fri Feb 27, 2015, 06:29 PM

Feb 2015

Werner Klemperer, who was the son of the great conductor Otto Klemperer, told the producers when he was cast as Klink that he would immediately quit the show if the Germans were ever portrayed as being competent. He didn't have much to worry about, as it happened. His most difficult task on the show was playing the violin out of tune, as he was a fine violinist IRL.

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