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Did critics of the POW sitcom 'Hogan's Heroes' actually have a point?

JL;DR SUMMARY As Hogan's Heroes nears its 60th anniversary, its controversial portrayal of a Nazi POW camp raises questions about its impact on public perception of Nazism and the Holocaust. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustJewish ActorsNazisCriticismJewish PeopleRobert ClaryHogan's HeroesCultural ImpactTelevision HistoryNazi Satire

Places mentioned

Paris, France
"Later, Clary discussed his return to postwar Paris, where he unexpectedly met one of his sisters who had survived the conflict."
Austria
"...a play by two former U.S. prisoners of war at a camp in Austria."
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
"...Jerry Fielding (born Joshua Itzhak Feldman in Pittsburgh), who was irked when forced to change his family name to work on radio..."
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
"...Howard Caine, who had a Jewish upbringing in Nashville, played a Gestapo officer."
Idaho, United States
"When U.S. neo-Nazi Richard Girnt Butler sat in the back of a pickup truck in Idaho on Hitler-worship parade days..."
Ukraine
"...as the Jewish suitor of a character portrayed by Regina Resnik, an American Jewish mezzo-soprano of Ukrainian origin."

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