RIP Robert Clary
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Long interesting life. Didn't let horrible experiences define him.
Good by Corporal Le Beau. That show still makes me laugh today.
My kids love hogans hero’s. We have the dvd box set. No one seams to stream it.
Here is a excerpt of his story being held in the concentration camps. It will make you pause.
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Born in 1926 in Paris, France, Clary was the youngest of 14 children, 10 of whom would die in the Holocaust.[1] At the age of twelve, he began a career singing professionally on a French radio station and also studied art in Paris.[2] In 1942, because he was Jewish, he was deported to the Nazi concentration campat Ottmuth, in Upper Silesia (now Otmęt, Poland). He was tattooed with the identification "A5714" on his left forearm. He was later sent to Buchenwald concentration camp.[citation needed]
At Buchenwald, Clary sang to an audience of SS soldiers every other Sunday, accompanied by an accordionist. He said, "Singing, entertaining, and being in kind of good health at my age, that's why I survived. I was very immature and young and not really fully realizing what situation I was involved with ... I don't know if I would have survived if I really knew that."[3]
Writing about his experience, Clary said:
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Born in 1926 in Paris, France, Clary was the youngest of 14 children, 10 of whom would die in the Holocaust.[1] At the age of twelve, he began a career singing professionally on a French radio station and also studied art in Paris.[2] In 1942, because he was Jewish, he was deported to the Nazi concentration campat Ottmuth, in Upper Silesia (now Otmęt, Poland). He was tattooed with the identification "A5714" on his left forearm. He was later sent to Buchenwald concentration camp.[citation needed]
At Buchenwald, Clary sang to an audience of SS soldiers every other Sunday, accompanied by an accordionist. He said, "Singing, entertaining, and being in kind of good health at my age, that's why I survived. I was very immature and young and not really fully realizing what situation I was involved with ... I don't know if I would have survived if I really knew that."[3]
Writing about his experience, Clary said:
Clary was liberated from Buchenwald on April 11, 1945. Twelve other members of his immediate family had been sent to Auschwitz concentration camp; Clary was the only survivor.[5] When he returned to Paris after World War II, he learned that three of his 13 siblings had not been taken away and had survived the Nazi occupation of France.[3]
Was very surprised that he was an actual Holocaust survivor.
Man, I loved Hogan's Heroes when I was young.
I am watching it now...
Lots of the actors on that show were Holocaust survivors or got out before the Nazis got them. The guy that played Col Klink made them have his character always get defeated by Hogan.
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That was a good show! 
Bob Crane was the only actor I can really remember. That's an era in television that will never be repeated. Good clean entertainment that didn't rely on vulgarity or profanity to make you laugh. That is what you call REAL talent!
Bob Crane was the only actor I can really remember. That's an era in television that will never be repeated. Good clean entertainment that didn't rely on vulgarity or profanity to make you laugh. That is what you call REAL talent!
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RIP Robert...
The only character still living is Kenneth Washington who replaced Ivan Dixon. Nobody is left from the original cast now. Robert Clary lived a long life age 96 but it is hard to believe that Leon Askin ( General Burkhalter ) lived to age 97!
The only character still living is Kenneth Washington who replaced Ivan Dixon. Nobody is left from the original cast now. Robert Clary lived a long life age 96 but it is hard to believe that Leon Askin ( General Burkhalter ) lived to age 97!
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