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Behind the Scenes of ‘Hogan’s Heroes’: ‘Larry Hovis and Richard Dawson Were Always Pulling Pranks’
Brenda Royce, author of Hogan’s Heroes: Behind the Scenes at Stalag 13!, exclusively tells Closer that some cast members were ‘always pulling pranks’ on set.
“The show focused on the ingenuity of the prisoners and the humor that came from them outwitting their captors,” Brenda Royce, author of Hogan’s Heroes: Behind the Scenes at Stalag 13!, exclusively tells Closer. When pitched the series, both Bob and Werner Klemperer, who played Germany’s Col. Klink and was one of the show’s several Jewish actors who served in the American military during World War II, assumed Hogan’s Heroes would be a drama. “[The writers] wanted to make fun of the war, but not the atrocities committed,” explains Royce, who notes that the Holocaust is never mentioned on the show.
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