1. The education system is failing! https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1151077475180527616 …
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3. The one interesting thing about Hogan's Heroes is that it was a military service comedy, a once popular genre that seems to have died out. The genre runs from the high (The Good Soldier Švejk, Catch-22, MASH) to the low (Hogan's Heroes, Sgt. Bilko)
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4. As a service comedy, the most interesting thing about Hogan's Heroes was Sgt. Schulz, a German soldier who really didn't want to do his job & was good at not doing it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgcxGFmYyPs …
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5. It's strange that the service comedy has disappeared despite (or maybe perhaps because of?) the interminable Forever Wars.
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6. The critique that Hogan's Heroes whitewashed or made light of Nazis wasn't just made by woke millennials -- that was Mad Magazine's critique in the 1960s (they shifted story from a POW camp to a concentration camp).pic.twitter.com/WKbwvmNy4v
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7. Other interesting byproduct of Hogan's Heroes is the movie Auto Focus about the disturbing life & death of star Bob Crane. Not a great movie but a decent one.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_Focus
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8. One last thing: Hogan's Heroes shows how seemingly contemporary "woke" controversies are usually reprisals of critiques that existed all along. That's true of much debates about culture. These controversies are of long standing.
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It's all about Auto Focus. The most interesting thing to result from Hogan's Heroes.
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