It's one of my favorite endings after the episode "Heil Klink".

Don't wet my ink blotter!!

probably worth hundreds today in good condition at an auction.

Just check online ;) you can find some between 200-600$ ;) the lunch box was very cool.

images.app.goo.gl/R3guJtm5feuNqTHfA cool picture of the Lunch box ;)

I'm hip to that !

I got a brand new one never used to the right price

Haha, yep! The whole show was brilliantly put together. This show and the Phil Silvers show are the only two that no matter how many times I watch them all, they always make me laugh just as hard every time I see them haha.

So just to be sure, Robert Claray who played Corp. Louis LeBeau is the only one still alive today

@@matthewclokus7311 As far as I know he is the only one that is still alive.

One of the reoccurring cast members is still with us, Nita Talbot, who played the Russian ingenue in several episodes. I think she's the last of those as well.

@@mikehaas7 I didn't know she was still alive. That's cool.

Yeah that takes real talent and real life innate likability to be able to portray characters who are unsavory or not supposed to be likable like Hochstetter, Burkhalter, Klink, Schultz or Archie Bunker, George Jefferson, Dan Fielding etc. yet we can't help but love them because the actors make them funny and human.

Absolutely, I comment on his acting ability in a recent comment on this post.

@@kendallrivers1119 Beautiful example man. That list was perfect.

Hochstetter isn't Gestapo. He's part of the Waffen SS which acted as the Nazis elite paramilitary organization while the Gestapo acted as the secret police.

@@Sumschmuck Agreed, also at this point in the war the only Waffen SS wearing black were the Panzer Crews!

Even when Major Hochstetter messed up... He STILL did better than Colonel Klink ever did! Colonel Hogan was right:It WAS time for Colonel Klink to have a good cry! If I had been Colonel Klink, I'd have cried, too. After all, Colonel Klink had to EASILY be the worst Colonel in the entire German Army...or in the WORLD, for that matter! 🤪😜🤪😜🤪!!!

the cast were vanastic

..or sell girl scout cookies...

No German liked klink either

And then there's Hogan, who's tickled to death no matter which of them's screwed.

I have a theory that Klink knew what was going on and he let Hogan get away with everything because he secretly hated the Nazis.

@@1973Washu No, he is the Tiger and he guards his food against other predators! Hogan is Tiger's food.

CaptainSpycrab well Hochstetter was Gestapo , no one liked the Gestapo

and the shock of blowing up the car.

Howard was one of the best that's for sure

Real name Howard Cohen, a German Jew

Yes...and, when he's by himself, probably laughing himself to tears, at the thought of just how dumb and gullible these enemies of his were!

Must have been very difficult to make a gestapo agent funny. 😂

@@silvertemplar8061 It wasn't that Hochstetter was funny himself imho. What was funny was how Hogan continuously made a fool of him.

@Arbeedubya No he was very funny himself. His temper tantrums were hysterical! Lol

"Baahh!!"

@@danielknepper6884 he really was. i wish he was used in more episodes. should have been a regular on every show.

Not Hogan. If Hochstetter had been halfway competent and constituted a real threat to his operation, Hogan would have engineered an accident for the major a long time ago.

Very true

The Germans did no investigation of the car exploding is part of the spoof of German "efficiency", or should I say German "inefficiency."

I think that minor Newkirk line slipped by most people. Thats as lame and off the wall as it gets. If thats not a great understated comedy line, I dont know what is.

@@bobmalack481 That's right it was great on his part, it's just great the way he recovered from that slip so quickly and smoothly....

Another great Newkirk line (to prisoner) "Your on your way to England" "Is it safe?" "It couldn't be safer, your dead." LOL!

@@bobmalack481 yes, that is another great one, he made it sound like it's the only way to be safe there.. hahaha😃

👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

What is this man doing here!!

"Baahhh!!"

Werner Klemperer wanted it that way.

He survived the war...that's break enough.

There is an episode in which Hogan sends Klink to meet a 'young attractive and rich' widow so that he does not disturb Hogan's operations. It turns out that Klink gets really lucky. He stops by to bring Hogan 2 bottles of champagne to thank him for the tip. One from him and one from the beautiful lady.

He was so funny

I do hope in the time of a year since you posted your comment, you have discovered the proper usage of "your" versus "you're". _You're_ dead, as in "you are dead". Not "your" as in "on your right".

@@bobmalack481 Yeah today, you can't can't call a Nazi a Nazi, you have the President defending them

@@bobmalack481 Ah I see your problem, once you're ready to rejoin the reality based community you're welcome to. As it is if you see 'PC' as being authoritarian or dangerous you probably also feel like whites are somehow oppressed

@@bobmalack481 curious how you know my age. Do you assume I'm a millennial because i have a better working vocabulary than you? How is political correctness (which is basically 'don't be a dick') a bad thing?

@@bobmalack481 bit of a schlep for me at the moment as I'm in the midwest. Also quarantine is a thing. That being said, why does it bother you when a person is held accountable for what is said? You seem to have a problem with political correctness, fine, but why? Why does it bother you that people are encouraged not to use slurs, why does it bother you that people are encouraged to consider what they say and to be mindful about others? No one is getting dragged off to camps or arrested for racist or sexist rhetoric. Not to mention that you say that nationalism and nazism are different, yes that's true but nationalism is still problematic at best. It claims primacy of nation regardless of reality and encourages an uncritical praising of the nation and its actions. As for cancel culture, boycotts have existed for years and the right used it for years to attack anything critical of their religious views or that gave a positive example of gays.

Hochstetter: Klink, I have proof your prisoners are escaping, see, we found this button outside the gate (hands button to Klink) Klink: (looks at it closely and remarks) So, it says us! My God, one of the other funniest lines ever!

kendall rivers until Klink saved the Generals life and he said he was like a brother....then he tries to pawn his sister to marry Klink...

They made several mistakes with SS rank insignia during the show. One had an SS General wearing the insignia of the Reichsfuhrer.

Hogan's Heroes is a great old show but it's not known for its historical accuracy.

This is a slapstick comedy show. It's not a historical series. Most viewers probably couldn't care less about correct rank badges.

Me to still watch it on dvds and ipad

Yup i still watch it on metv👍🏾

Wouldn't you

Join the club!

I still watch it today LOL

But they also could have thought the fire was so hot and consuming that there was nothing left of the corpse so why bother….

Even Hochstetter had some humanity.

@@joeschizoid7762 I guess!

Maybe, maybe not. That camp was run by the Luftwaffe and so Hogan was its responsibility. There was no love lost between the regular military and the Gestapo, Hochstetter might have gotten in serious trouble if he summarily executed an Allied POW because something the POW said annoyed him.

True enough but an SS col. (Standartenfuhrer), would not have worn the runes. The oak leaf would have been on both collars.

Stuff I'd be embarrassed to know

Any idea why they only wear rank insignia on only one shoulder?

@@joesimon2018 Yes, you would be embarrassed to find out you have been lied to all of these years. The Great One wanted the deplorable trash out of a great Germany, for the same reason they are in Amerika. Pushing garbage in schools. The _small hats_ have been run out of over 100 countries for the same reason they need to be run out of Amerika.

Nope, and that's why HE'S a general instead of a major! 😂

Sturmbannfuhrer and Standartenfuhrer.

Those dogs are well trained, they will only attack Germans.

Pretty sure it's "The Defector" (S 5 Ep #10)

Shows at the top: Scene from S5 E9. That means Season 5 Episode 9.

Oops! Missed that. I was close, anyway! haha

Major Hochstetter's Mercedes-Benz W142 (Typ 320) seen in this episode used standard petrol, not diesel. Actually, very few of the smaller German military vehicles of the time (staff cars, light armored cars, reconnaissance vehicles, utility vehicles (jeep-like VW Kübelwagen), etc) used diesel engines. Gasoline was easier and cheaper to produce.

Wouldn’t want to think Hogan’s Heroes was somehow inaccurately portraying WWII or Nazi prisoner of war camps. ;-)

The car was no Mercedes it was a Rolls Royce Phantom III

​@Perryinjax Studios It was a TV show. Bing Crosby used what was available to him. Most all the vehicles used in Hogan's Heros were owned directly by him or by his studio. Bing owned several Mercedes himself, and was quite an avid collector of Mercedes and Rolls Royces he insisted everything used in the show actually ran and drove. That Phantom was used in several episodes. And it was not out of the realm of possibility either as the Nazi's confiscated many private vehicles in Western Europe for their own use. So it is not too far out there to have a German general using a confiscated Rolls as their staff car.

Gasoline doesn't do this either. It's purely poetic license.