September 17, 1965 –
CBS-TV premiered Hogan’s Heroes, the first and perhaps only sitcom based in a German prisoner-of-war camp on this date.
Werner Klemperer, Howard Caine, Leon Askin and John Banner, who portrayed the chief Germans Klink, Hochstetter, Burkhalter and Schultz, were all Jewish. All of them also served in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II. Klemperer was born in Cologne, Germany and Banner and Askin were both born in Vienna, Austria, and the three of them immigrated to the United States after fleeing the Nazi regime. Klemperer was half Jewish.
The Haus of Dcaligari 