Neo-Nazis weren't the only people who hated "Hogan's Heroes".
I read the book "The Murder of Bob Crane: Who Killed the Star of Hogan's Heroes?" many years ago. After Crane's murder the police were bombarded with phone calls, many from wackos. Some suspected Neo-Nazis of the crime. At least one person suspected John Banner, the actor who played Sergeant Schultz on "Hogan's Heroes". Sadly, Banner had passed away five years earlier. I have to admit I imagined Banner answering "I see nothing! I hear nothing! I know nothing!" to a police interrogation. Banner was Jewish and not a real Nazi. On a serious note, he lost a lot of his family to the Holocaust as did his Hogan costar Robert Clary, who played Corporal Louis LeBeau. Clary is one of the last two living principal cast members of the show with Kenneth Washington, who joined the sitcom in its final season.
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