“And when that refinery is blown up, and it comes out that it was your idea …”. The writing on this series is second only to the superior role playing of the actors. What a great show!
Fun fact, if you were able to return to allied territory via an escape system such as "the underground" you would not have been returned to the same theater of operations. because if you were captured on a subsequent mission, you would know the routes and be a security risk if tourtured, and you would be tortured....
I think there was a line in Stalag 17 about that. You get away and say you make it home? Then what? They re-equip you, load you onto another bomber and you go down over the pacific. And that's if you're lucky. The Japs made the nazis look most humane next to their standards for treating POWs.
Schultz "Knew nothing, and saw nothing"! It was his way of letting the Allies win the War! What better way to get out of trouble, then to pretend that he knew nothing, and saw nothing?!? It's the perfect out for an Ordinary Soldier, such as Sergeant Schultz!
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Okay, my own head canon is that Schultz fought in the First World War, and the horror of it made him vow to never be a soldier again, but in WW2 he found a place where he could help the Allies as quietly as he could, but he didn't want to betray his own country. So he had to walk a fine line to do what's right. Haven't seen enough episodes to prove this, and I watched it sometimes back in the 70's, but I'm sure it's close to the actual plot. Any interviews with John Banner about his character?
It really sounds close enough, not a bad Theory. I actually met John Banner at I think it was the muscular dystrophy Telethon it is very nice and humble man Warner Klemperer was a card too,the man had a pretty astounding career in show business.
That makes a lot of sense, and what Schultz really wanted was for the war to end so he could get back to being a toymaker. He was no Nazi, just a good guy in a bad situation.
That's overthinking it a bit. Schultz was simply determined to survive the war and decided the best way to do that was to remain as uninvolved as he could possibly get. And after all the other shit he's seen and didn't report, he knows the prisoners have him over a barrel so he keeps his mouth shut. And since that also is remaining uninvolved in anything, that suits him. He also doesn't hate the prisoners and it's clear they don't hate him so likely he has trouble seeing them as enemies. And although he's a German patriot deep down he's also likely quite disturbed by the Nazi regime and let it spill once he's a closet monarchist: "Things were so much happier in Germany when we had an Emperor."
The security around the refinery is based on an actual refinery in Ploesti, Romania. Because it was a highly productive refinery, it was surrounded by dozens of AA guns, including a train with nothing but AA guns. The train track circled the refinery, so the train was able to defend an attack from any direction. The Allies lost dozens of planes and hundreds of men while trying to destroy it. With plenty of slave labor available it was quickly repaired after each raid and remained in operation until the Russians captured it, late in the war.
Timeless humor I have watched this over the years and it never dates I think the idea of a prison camp being run by the prisoners especially prisoners of war during the second world war a classic of course the stars make series and the comedy isn't just making fun of the war there were many stories in this series I say inspired by real events from real prisoners of the times and the series itself came from a movie and possibly other movies about the same theme? I definitely think this series should have a celebration or something how old is this series 50 years old or more? Without this show there would be no MASH and in that series a former star of the show appeared in MASH or more?
