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MichMan

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8. Can't even imagine the reaction that would happen now if a TV exec ever proposed a comedy about a Nazi prison camp.

Reply to exmodee (Original post)

Tue Jan 21, 2025, 12:38 PM

Jan 21

"Hey, what about a comedy about a Nazi prison camp. It will be hilarious"

They would likely be forced to resign and advertisers would refuse.

What I find interesting is that Hogan's Heroes was released only 20 years or so after the end of the war. People of the times lived through the war, yet were still able to see humor in the show, and didn't take it seriously. Nowadays that would never happen.

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Or this, not funny at all - a movie about what may be required of resistance. Ocelot II Jan 21 #1

I've never seen this, but have seen plenty of other WWII films exmodee Jan 21 #2

This was just released a few weeks ago - one of the best WWII films I've ever seen. Ocelot II Jan 21 #4

I'll put it on my watchlist. WarGamer Jan 21 #13

Several of the primary actors had fled Nazi Germany, or lost relatives in the Holocaust bucolic_frolic Jan 21 #3

Gen Burkhalter wore a scar on his face from a Nazi attack Norbert Jan 21 #6

The closest person on that set to being a Nazi was probably Bob Crane. Omnipresent Jan 21 #5

Hogan's Heroes was a a TV series that suggested life in a Nazi prison camp was just a series of fun hijinks. To suggest Martin68 Jan 21 #7

Can't even imagine the reaction that would happen now if a TV exec ever proposed a comedy about a Nazi prison camp. MichMan Jan 21 #8

it was military on military. LeftInTX Jan 21 #10

There were several, but no others I'm aware of featured German or Japanese adversaries in starring roles MichMan Jan 21 #11

FYI Hogan's Heroes was a more comedified version of "Stalag 17" andym Jan 21 #9

Robert Clary who played LeBeau was an actual survivor of the concentration camps. Crunchy Frog Jan 21 #12