Jawohl! Hmmm . . . Where have I heard that before? When I was a kid!
Let's Drink!
Jerry
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You heard that on Hogan’s Heroes when you were a kid. Colonel
WILhelm Klink was a German Officer character on Hogan’s Heroes TV SHOW
The following is a list of characters from Hogan's Heroes, an Americansitcom television series which starred Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer and John Banner, and featured Robert Clary, Richard Dawson, Ivan Dixon, and Larry Hovis. It ran for six seasons on CBSfrom September 17, 1965, to April 4, 1971.
Colonel Klink
Werner Klemperer as Col. Klink
Colonel Wilhelm Klink (portrayed by
Werner Klemperer) –
KommandantOberst (Colonel) Wilhelm Klink is an old-line
Luftwaffe officer of aristocratic (
Junker)
Prussian descent. He is shown to be inept, a bit dimwitted, cowardly, arrogantly confident, vain, childish, and often clueless and rather gullible. He is a veteran aviator of the
First World Warand can be seen wearing an
Iron CrossFirst Class, along with the
1939 clasp for a second award (spange),
Ground Assault Badge of the Luftwaffe, and the
Pilot's Badge. The former implies that he also earned both an Iron Cross Second Class as well as the
Honor Cross for service in
World War I.
After failing his entrance exams for law or medical school,
[2] he received an appointment to a military academy and graduated 95th in his class. Stuck at the rank of colonel for twenty years with an efficiency rating a few points above "miserable", he is the only member of his class still in uniform who has not become a general. Klink always wears a
monocle on his left eye, usually carries a
riding crop, and walks with a stoop. Klink is for the most part portrayed as a vain, muddling, and incompetent career officer rather than as an evil German or ardent Nazi. Klink is easily manipulated by Hogan through a combination of flattery, chicanery, and playing on Klink's fear of being sent to the
Russian Front or being arrested by the
Gestapo.
Klemperer reprised his role as Colonel Klink outside of the series twice: once on the 1960s
Batman series in a cameo role and in a 1993
episode of
The Simpsons.“
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You blame Wilhelm (German) KLINK ( Private Klink here at BF) for the Klink Hammer (10” Jackhammer) because it was his sole efforts which kept the flame burning for this blade in his Death Chat thread.