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Hogan’s Heroes and Postwar America
by welee001
In 1965 a radio ad promised its audience "that if you liked World War II, you'll love Hogan's Heroes." That somewhat misbegotten, and soon cancelled ad, all by itself tells us something about laughter, war, history, and memory. And, oddly enough, it tells us about the united, wholesale agreement of Americans in 1965 that Nazism was bad, and so it was safe to laugh at it. This podcast tells the story of the making of that show, and of the actors' lives before and after its production run. But it also tells the story of how we can see and understand postwar America better when we understand those stories. Three members of the cast were Jewish refugees from the Nazis and all three of them joined the U.S. Army during the war. A fourth survived Buchenwald by singing to the camp guards. Yet another would be a civil rights advocate in the 1960s and would direct one of the most radical films about black revolutionaries ever made--so radical that its dis
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Ep. 2 "The Old Germans" and Jewish Refugee Policies
In this episode, we discuss the lives of John Banner (Sgt. Schultz) and Leon Askin (General Burkhalter), and we interview renowned historian of the Holocaust Dr. Christopher Browning about US Jewish refugee policy during the 1930s. We also delve into German policies toward Jews in the pre-war period, as well as the Swiss and French response to refugees from 1939 to1940.
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Ep 1 Selling World War II as Comedy
In this episode we talk about the genesis of Hogan's Heroes as a plot originally based on a prison comedy. The conversion to a WWII POW camp brought with it controversy, a reluctant network executive, critical reviews in major media, but also success. We talk about the way TV worked in the 1960s, and we interview Frank Conniff of MST3K fame on the nature of comedy and satire and how Hogan's Heroes was able to sell WWII as comedy.
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Prologue: The Original Pitch for Hogan's Heroes and Postwar America
This short audio summarizes the stories we tell in the full podcast. We used this to sell people on the idea when we first came up with it. Video version is available on YouTube.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
In 1965 a radio ad promised its audience "that if you liked World War II, you'll love Hogan's Heroes." That somewhat misbegotten, and soon cancelled ad, all by itself tells us something about laughter, war, history, and memory. And, oddly enough, it tells us about the united, wholesale agreement of Americans in 1965 that Nazism was bad, and so it was safe to laugh at it. This podcast tells the story of the making of that show, and of the actors' lives before and after its production run. But it also tells the story of how we can see and understand postwar America better when we understand those stories. Three members of the cast were Jewish refugees from the Nazis and all three of them joined the U.S. Army during the war. A fourth survived Buchenwald by singing to the camp guards. Yet another would be a civil rights advocate in the 1960s and would direct one of the most radical films about black revolutionaries ever made--so radical that its dis
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welee001
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In 1965 a radio ad promised its audience "that if you liked World War II, you'll love Hogan's Heroes." That somewhat misbegotten, and soon cancelled ad, all by itself tells us something about laughter, war, history, and memory. And, oddly enough, it tells us about the united, wholesale agreement...
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