![]() ![]() He was also careful to distinguish between the show’s setting and his own experiences as a Jew interned at Nazi concentration camps. ![]() If I wanted to bring character what it was like it would have been desperate.” He was liberated from Buchenwald on April 1945 and subsequently learned that three of his siblings had remained in occupied France and survived.Īsked years later in a Television Academy Foundation interview if he brought any of those experiences with him to Hogan’s Heroes Clary answered, “No, because it was completely different. ![]() “I was very immature and young and not really fully realizing what situation I was involved with … I don’t know if I would have survived if I really knew that.”Ī dozen members of Clary’s family were sent to Auschwitz and died during the war, including his parents. “Singing, entertaining, and being in kind of good health at my age, that’s why I survived,” he later recalled. Clary had sung on the radio before his imprisonment and, after he was transferred to Germany’s notorious Buchenwald camp, he sang to an audience of SS soldiers every other Sunday. Born in Paris in 1926 as the youngest of 14 children in a Jewish family, he was sent to the Nazi concentration camp at Ottmuth in Poland in 1942. Clary was one of the last two surviving members of the show’s principal cast, the other being Kenneth Washington, who played Sergeant Richard Baker in the show’s final season. ![]()
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