Nimrod had to have access to the outer office and more than likely be able to be seen there without being noticed. Nimrod must also be an agent with access to German secrets. Schultz, Helga and Klink are not good suspects because they are at the camp 99% of the time, so they can't have access to German secrets unless it's through another person. Burkhalter and Hochstetter on the other hand...so my bet is one of those two.
Burkhalter more likely. Hochstetter was WAY TOO hostile towards Hogan and always trying to expose him somehow. Burkhalter only did it once or twice but almost all the time he is bringing German plans to Stalag 13 just to get it sabotaged. He keeps doing this even though all the plans he brings there end in failure. Also, in this episode, he had the supposed secret plans and he is a Luftwaffet General. The plans were for an Me262 jet, which the Luftwaffet would have. Plus, he has seen Hogan and his antics but lets him off the hook almost all the time, like when they were filming a German propaganda and "accidentally" blew up a vital bridge or when a gestapo agent was about to arrest everyone including Burkhalter but Hogan gave the agent a pen that was a bomb and the car the agent was in blew up right in front of Klink and Burkhalter's eyes.
@@Envy_the_Darksider You're as big a superfan as I am!!! Wow! Although Hochstetter's antics were perfect cover for such a person, I have to agree with you, Burkhalter just adds up better.
Leon Askin lost family members in the Camps. Robert Clary was in a concentration camp, and lost family members and only survived by entertaining Family Members. John Banner also lost family in the Camps. Klemperer was in the US Army in WW2. Askin, Banner and Klemperer only agreed to play Germans once they were assured they would be complete idiots. Ironically, Colonel Klink is a terrible violin player while Klemper is a trained Classical violinist who has performed with Symphonies around the world.
Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht camps were usually staffed by Older officers and soldiers, like Klink and Schultz. POWs in German camps had it much better than those in Japanese Camps. There are stories where a Luftwaffe POW camp commander refused to hand over Jewish POWS to the SS because it was a violation of the Geneva convention and sometimes resulted in Armed stand offs between the Germans. Not one German camp commander was ever charged with a war crime.
I remember hearing about that. It was always the SS and upper leadership that was the most zealous, and often ignored the Geneva Conventions because of their zealotry.
There was even one case of the Luftwaffe rescuing airmen from a concentration camp. The airmen had been kept in hiding by Belguim citizens, but when they tried to arange their escape, each of them were betrayed by the same double agent (who posed as an super agent for the resistence). On the train they had tried to escape by tearing up the floorboards of their rail car and laying on the tracks until they could roll out between the wheels. They couldn't wait for the whole train to pass over because the Nazis had placed a net of barbed wire under the cabose. Their attempt was uncovered and the Nazis almost had them all gunned down, going so far as to stop the train and line up all the prisoners in front of a machine gun. The airmen all agreed that they would rush the gun when it started firing in the hope that at least one of them would survive long enough to reach it. That ended up not being necisarry and the train conintued on to Buchenwald. There were other airmen already there (a total of 168) and they all made sure to stick together to survive. The ones who did survive were saved when a Luftwaffe officer visited the camp. One of the airmen who spoke German approached him, saluted and informed in that he and other airmen were being kept in barbaric conditions and demand to be treated as prisoners of war. The officer listened and most of them were relocated.
@@brainflash1 Ever heard of the Battle of Castle Itter. I kid you not, American soldiers along with German POW's and Austrian resistance fighters and French prisoners fought of the Waffen-SS in the last days of the war. You need to look it up because it is to crazy to just describe here.
@@johnharris6655 The German's were not POW's in that situation, but a German Army company that were resisting the SS. They sent out a call for help, with an American company responding. This battle was featured in the Sabaton song 'The Last Battle' I think was the name, not sure. Also, after the battle, the German Commander and his men did surrender to the Americans.
When I was a kid, I had a conversation with a former American airman who spent time in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II. I asked him if there was any similarity between his experience and Hogans Heroes. He said none. He said the Germans were tough no nonsense prison managers who took no foolishness.
Klink and Schultz - ALL foolishness. Supposedly before he agreed to take the role, Werner Klemperer insisted that all of Klink's schemes must fail. I'd say that happened.
Don't forget D-Day at Stalag 13, covered in the fanfiction "Now What Have They Done?" - Klink couldn't straighten out the confusion after the episode the way it shows Burkhalter doing it, even as Hogan causes Burkhalter to feel he is trapped in an American Vaudeville skit as he tries to find the commandant. Plus, even if you discount someone else's idea that was borrowed of the camp being established over an old mine, Burkhalter could easily have found Klink and Schultz specifically for that camp. I could believe Klink as an associate, the Burkhalter would be the one either way who steers all those people towards Stalag 13, because he knows Hogan is there and so is Klink and therefore he doesn't have to get his hands dirty and arouse suspicion.
I've always wanted a spin off show where at the end of the war Schultz defects with his family and Col Klink. Then they live in an American town in the 50's
If Oberst Klink is really Nimrod then he would have made sure that Schultz was taken care of one way or the other. Schultz owns the Schatzie Toy Company, so Klink would have made sure that the allies gave him his factory back. Schultz would have learned Klink's true identity and offered him a position at the company. They would have stayed in post waf Germany and lived a pretty nice lifestyle.
That's exactly how I wanted the show to end. In the last episode the remaining Nazi brass are going to shoot Klink for failing so much, and the allies are right outside the camp. And Klink is freaking out. Then Hogan and the others take Klink and Shultz into a tunnel and help them defect.
It's a nice idea, but there are continuity problems (not ones a comedy couldn't over come). There was an episode whose leitmotif was that Hogan convinced his captors the war was coming to an end soon. It was then revealed the Schultz, despite being a bumbling sergeant, was in fact in charge of a major German toy company pre-war, which (or so the premise went) could be expected to resume after the war. Klink, of course, was currying favor with Schultz to get a job. So, at least in the actual continuity, that would be the "expected" result -- though of course in the non-comedy version, the factories are presumably converted to a war footing and thus destroyed by the allies. But hey, this is comedy, so the factory survives, right?
What a pity that this show was cancelled when it was. At the end, when Stalag-13 was liberated, Klink turns to Hogan and says "Well, Colonel, it was a great pleasure working with you to get rid of the Nazis."" Hogan, stunned, says"You worked with us?"Klink: Öf course. Did you think I was really that stupid?!?
@uayfb1 that would never have happened, Klemperer only agreed to play Klink on the condition that Klink be an evil but incompetent buffoon. At no point could he be portrayed as sympathetic to the Allied cause.
@@robertortiz-wilson1588 then why are some states ban books that do that? or do you really belive the lazy excuses of "protecting children" when the same people also do stuff that endanger them more. Not to mention that "free speech" now means that you can deny the holocaust again Btw. Book baning and yelling free speech is peak comedy if it wouldn't be so sad
Yep that's my thoughts too. Although Hochstetter is a Good Candidate. Shame that Hogans Heroes Never had a Series Finale. They might've revealed who Nimrod's Identity. Just imagine if it had been Hochstetter who was the Nemesis of Both Klink and Hogan🤔
She knows of the tunnels underneath Stalag 13 and even went down there to help them with their scheme to fool a german agent posing as a prisoner as well as Hogan when he visits Klink's office.
I Propose Sgt. Schultz! He Owned the Largest Toy Co. in Germany but it was shut down .... He would still have hundreds of Loyal Employees scattered all over Germany!
Schultz is absolutely the best suspect, if we assume the bumbling was all an act. That said I've always felt like Klink did know *exactly* what was going on and kept his mouth shut because he knew that Hogan was also protecting him from being sent to the Russian front (By not doing anything that would overtly come back on Klink) since Klink's replacement would probably be more competent.
I loved Schultz. 'I know nothingk!' when he obviously knew everything. So long as Hogan didnt get Klink and himself sent to the Eastern front Schultz was perfectly prepared to do what it took to actively ensure whatever the prisoners got up to was ignored. He'd worked out how the whole business was going to go, and was damned if he was going to put his life on the line for some jumped up corporal from Austria. Stalag 13 let her m ride out the war looking ng like a Patriot while doing the least harm and pulling off some good. Was Klink as stupid as he seemed, or was he in on it with Schultz or independently working the same scam? I dont know. However Schultz was very determined neither of them were going to the Eastern front and he had willing allies in pulling off that goal in Hogan and the Prisoners.
Almost no new stuff makes me laugh anymore, and then after I've seen it once it's not that funny anymore. This show always makes me laugh every time even after seeing these episodes dozens of times.
Nimrod had to have access to the outer office and more than likely be able to be seen there without being noticed. Nimrod must also be an agent with access to German secrets. Schultz, Helga and Klink are not good suspects because they are at the camp 99% of the time, so they can't have access to German secrets unless it's through another person. Burkhalter and Hochstetter on the other hand...so my bet is one of those two.
Burkhalter more likely. Hochstetter was WAY TOO hostile towards Hogan and always trying to expose him somehow.
Burkhalter only did it once or twice but almost all the time he is bringing German plans to Stalag 13 just to get it sabotaged. He keeps doing this even though all the plans he brings there end in failure. Also, in this episode, he had the supposed secret plans and he is a Luftwaffet General. The plans were for an Me262 jet, which the Luftwaffet would have.
Plus, he has seen Hogan and his antics but lets him off the hook almost all the time, like when they were filming a German propaganda and "accidentally" blew up a vital bridge or when a gestapo agent was about to arrest everyone including Burkhalter but Hogan gave the agent a pen that was a bomb and the car the agent was in blew up right in front of Klink and Burkhalter's eyes.
@@Envy_the_Darksider You're as big a superfan as I am!!! Wow! Although Hochstetter's antics were perfect cover for such a person, I have to agree with you, Burkhalter just adds up better.
Captain Binghamton how would you know who Nimrod is and the most likely candidate would be?
What business is it of yours?? What,what,what,what!?!? Lol 😅@@kingwildcat6192000
@@kingwildcat6192000 What, what, what, what!??? lol
Leon Askin lost family members in the Camps. Robert Clary was in a concentration camp, and lost family members and only survived by entertaining Family Members. John Banner also lost family in the Camps. Klemperer was in the US Army in WW2. Askin, Banner and Klemperer only agreed to play Germans once they were assured they would be complete idiots. Ironically, Colonel Klink is a terrible violin player while Klemper is a trained Classical violinist who has performed with Symphonies around the world.
Klemperer always required the German he played to lose by contract with the studio.
@@prycenewberg3976 Unless he really was Nimrod, then he won.
Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht camps were usually staffed by Older officers and soldiers, like Klink and Schultz. POWs in German camps had it much better than those in Japanese Camps. There are stories where a Luftwaffe POW camp commander refused to hand over Jewish POWS to the SS because it was a violation of the Geneva convention and sometimes resulted in Armed stand offs between the Germans. Not one German camp commander was ever charged with a war crime.
I remember hearing about that. It was always the SS and upper leadership that was the most zealous, and often ignored the Geneva Conventions because of their zealotry.
@@fenrirgaming37 That's why Hochstetter is there in the show.
There was even one case of the Luftwaffe rescuing airmen from a concentration camp. The airmen had been kept in hiding by Belguim citizens, but when they tried to arange their escape, each of them were betrayed by the same double agent (who posed as an super agent for the resistence). On the train they had tried to escape by tearing up the floorboards of their rail car and laying on the tracks until they could roll out between the wheels. They couldn't wait for the whole train to pass over because the Nazis had placed a net of barbed wire under the cabose. Their attempt was uncovered and the Nazis almost had them all gunned down, going so far as to stop the train and line up all the prisoners in front of a machine gun. The airmen all agreed that they would rush the gun when it started firing in the hope that at least one of them would survive long enough to reach it. That ended up not being necisarry and the train conintued on to Buchenwald. There were other airmen already there (a total of 168) and they all made sure to stick together to survive. The ones who did survive were saved when a Luftwaffe officer visited the camp. One of the airmen who spoke German approached him, saluted and informed in that he and other airmen were being kept in barbaric conditions and demand to be treated as prisoners of war. The officer listened and most of them were relocated.
@@brainflash1 Ever heard of the Battle of Castle Itter. I kid you not, American soldiers along with German POW's and Austrian resistance fighters and French prisoners fought of the Waffen-SS in the last days of the war. You need to look it up because it is to crazy to just describe here.
@@johnharris6655 The German's were not POW's in that situation, but a German Army company that were resisting the SS.
They sent out a call for help, with an American company responding.
This battle was featured in the Sabaton song 'The Last Battle' I think was the name, not sure.
Also, after the battle, the German Commander and his men did surrender to the Americans.
I loved Burkhalter and Hochstetter - they were my favourites!
Very good comedic acting.
When I was a kid, I had a conversation with a former American airman who spent time in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II. I asked him if there was any similarity between his experience and Hogans Heroes. He said none. He said the Germans were tough no nonsense prison managers who took no foolishness.
My grandfather (who was a WW2 POW) enjoyed watching hogan hero's, but had trouble watching MASH
Klink and Schultz - ALL foolishness. Supposedly before he agreed to take the role, Werner Klemperer insisted that all of Klink's schemes must fail. I'd say that happened.
Burkhalter is Nimrod!
No doubt. That's why he brings all the good stuff to Stalag 13 for Hogan to see. (to bad the show didn't really work that deep)
No evidence for that.
I always thought Schultz was Nimrod. Who did more to help Hogan's operation?
Don't forget D-Day at Stalag 13, covered in the fanfiction "Now What Have They Done?" - Klink couldn't straighten out the confusion after the episode the way it shows Burkhalter doing it, even as Hogan causes Burkhalter to feel he is trapped in an American Vaudeville skit as he tries to find the commandant. Plus, even if you discount someone else's idea that was borrowed of the camp being established over an old mine, Burkhalter could easily have found Klink and Schultz specifically for that camp.
I could believe Klink as an associate, the Burkhalter would be the one either way who steers all those people towards Stalag 13, because he knows Hogan is there and so is Klink and therefore he doesn't have to get his hands dirty and arouse suspicion.
The precursor to a certain series chasing a painting?
"Think of all you two have been through together!"
"If I do, I'm liable to shoot him myself."
I've always wanted a spin off show where at the end of the war Schultz defects with his family and Col Klink. Then they live in an American town in the 50's
If Oberst Klink is really Nimrod then he would have made sure that Schultz was taken care of one way or the other. Schultz owns the Schatzie Toy Company, so Klink would have made sure that the allies gave him his factory back. Schultz would have learned Klink's true identity and offered him a position at the company.
They would have stayed in post waf Germany and lived a pretty nice lifestyle.
That's exactly how I wanted the show to end. In the last episode the remaining Nazi brass are going to shoot Klink for failing so much, and the allies are right outside the camp. And Klink is freaking out. Then Hogan and the others take Klink and Shultz into a tunnel and help them defect.
@maxis2k I'd watch that movie--even a made for television one
A lot of Germans who were taken to POW camps in the USA just stayed there.
It's a nice idea, but there are continuity problems (not ones a comedy couldn't over come).
There was an episode whose leitmotif was that Hogan convinced his captors the war was coming to an end soon.
It was then revealed the Schultz, despite being a bumbling sergeant, was in fact in charge of a major German toy company pre-war, which (or so the premise went) could be expected to resume after the war. Klink, of course, was currying favor with Schultz to get a job.
So, at least in the actual continuity, that would be the "expected" result -- though of course in the non-comedy version, the factories are presumably converted to a war footing and thus destroyed by the allies. But hey, this is comedy, so the factory survives, right?
He knows nussink he sees nussink
Klink is not Nimrod, he is *_a_* nimrod.
Nimrod is a mighty hunter in the Bible. Daffy Duck sarcastically calling Elmer Fudd "Nimrod" turned the word into an insult.
@@jb888888888amazing.
This show would be canceled nowadays. Sad. Good show.
What a pity that this show was cancelled when it was. At the end, when Stalag-13 was liberated, Klink turns to Hogan and says "Well, Colonel, it was a great pleasure working with you to get rid of the Nazis."" Hogan, stunned, says"You worked with us?"Klink: Öf course. Did you think I was really that stupid?!?
Recently a bunch of "Patriots" start getting angry if you make fun of Nazis ... weird
@uayfb1 that would never have happened, Klemperer only agreed to play Klink on the condition that Klink be an evil but incompetent buffoon. At no point could he be portrayed as sympathetic to the Allied cause.
@@TalesStahllol, no.
@@robertortiz-wilson1588 then why are some states ban books that do that? or do you really belive the lazy excuses of "protecting children" when the same people also do stuff that endanger them more. Not to mention that "free speech" now means that you can deny the holocaust again
Btw. Book baning and yelling free speech is peak comedy if it wouldn't be so sad
No, no, no. Helga is Nimrod.
Yep that's my thoughts too. Although Hochstetter is a Good Candidate. Shame that Hogans Heroes Never had a Series Finale. They might've revealed who Nimrod's Identity. Just imagine if it had been Hochstetter who was the Nemesis of Both Klink and Hogan🤔
Or Hilda giving Helga the info.
Well she is a blonde
She knows of the tunnels underneath Stalag 13 and even went down there to help them with their scheme to fool a german agent posing as a prisoner as well as Hogan when he visits Klink's office.
They need to produce a Broadway play of these skits!!
Shultz as Nimrod? Soo many suspects 😅😂
Watch the episode last night..one phrase stands out ..till we meet again🤔
Me whenever I’m trying to describe the best qualities of a given friend 😂😂
Everybody thought he was Stupid!
I Propose Sgt. Schultz! He Owned the Largest Toy Co. in Germany but it was shut down .... He would still have hundreds of Loyal Employees scattered all over Germany!
It's not a bad theory.
Schultz is absolutely the best suspect, if we assume the bumbling was all an act. That said I've always felt like Klink did know *exactly* what was going on and kept his mouth shut because he knew that Hogan was also protecting him from being sent to the Russian front (By not doing anything that would overtly come back on Klink) since Klink's replacement would probably be more competent.
Always a good laugh!!!
Major Hochstetter wearing the rank of a Colonel.
The Ole Wellington Cypher!
The General, of course.
I loved Schultz. 'I know nothingk!' when he obviously knew everything. So long as Hogan didnt get Klink and himself sent to the Eastern front Schultz was perfectly prepared to do what it took to actively ensure whatever the prisoners got up to was ignored. He'd worked out how the whole business was going to go, and was damned if he was going to put his life on the line for some jumped up corporal from Austria. Stalag 13 let her m ride out the war looking ng like a Patriot while doing the least harm and pulling off some good.
Was Klink as stupid as he seemed, or was he in on it with Schultz or independently working the same scam? I dont know. However Schultz was very determined neither of them were going to the Eastern front and he had willing allies in pulling off that goal in Hogan and the Prisoners.
Well said - Schultz was the best!
lol this was on a Red green Episode
Good ol Klinky !!!
Almost no new stuff makes me laugh anymore, and then after I've seen it once it's not that funny anymore. This show always makes me laugh every time even after seeing these episodes dozens of times.
Yah. Goodbye. 😂
And Stay Out!!!
It's such a ridiculous scene but it makes me laugh out loud every time.
Klink is Nimrod!
Yahbol
😂
Too many seppos.
EVERY FOCKING SHOW IS PIECE PIECE
Hochstetter is Nimrod!
No way.