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Thread #81802 Message #1501264
Posted By: Seamus Kennedy
06-Jun-05 - 03:11 PM
Thread Name: Obit: Leon Askin-Hogan's Heroes
Subject: RE: Obit: Leon Askin-Hogan's Heroes
He was an Austrian Jew, Leon Aschkenasy, and a cabaret performer before escaping the Nazis. I find it fascinating that most of the Nazis in Hogan's Heroes were played by Jewish actors from Austria or Germany. Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Leon Askin, Robert Clary (who had actually been in a concentration camp.)