Quote Originally Posted by Aragorn243 View Post
She seemed to miss the point that they were being made fun of and always lost. Not dissimilar to propaganda during the war.
Bingo.
Werner Klemperer (Klink) served as an MP and toured combat areas as an actor during WW2.
John Banner (Schultz) was a supply sergeant and purportedly lost family to the holocaust.
Robert Clary (LeBeau) was actually IN Auschwitz.
It was a prime-time outlet to make Nazis look bumbling and idiotic. I'd have taken it too!