The setting was a fictional version of Luftwaffe Stalag 13 ( Camp 13 in early episodes ), a POW camp for captured Allied airmen located north of the town of Hammelburg in the Bad Kissingen woods.

In an episode that had General Burkhalter ( Leon Askin ) making reference to the Jesse Owens victories during the 1936 Olympics and Adolf Hitler not being happy that a Black American won events over German athletes, Kinchloe knocks out the heavyweight champ of Stalag 13 ( Battling Bruno ) while Burkhalter was in the camp.

" At the end of the episode, Kinch says to Klink that he'd like to tell Bruno he was still the champion of Stalag 13 " as soon as he wakes up.

As with Kinchloe, Baker's race prevented him from having a lot of sabotage duties outside of Stalag 13, but he was able to contribute vital support to the missions that were assigned to him by Col. Hogan.

In one episode, after the blowing up of a train, Carter could not remember the way back to Stalag 13.

He also may have been the first POW at Stalag 13.

It can be argued that he was the first POW at Stalag 13.

Bands such as RKL, NOFX, Stalag 13, Hogan's Heroes, Tales of Terror, The Faction, and Suicidal Tendencies were also among the first wave of skate punk bands, with the latter band also paving the way for skate punk bands to play funk metal .. Blink-182's first two albums, Cheshire Cat and Dude Ranch, were considered by some to be skate punk, and brought large popularity to the genre.

He is best known, however, as Colonel Wilhelm Klink: the bumbling, cowardly and self-serving Kommandant of Stalag 13 on Hogan's Heroes, which aired from 1965 – 1971.

: For the fictional version of Stalag 13, see Hogan's Heroes

Stalag 13 was a post-World War II POW camp in Nuremberg, Germany, that held former SS military personnel.

Schultz, who fought with him in World War 1 visits Stalag 13.

His first film, Ghetto Venue, was about the recently closed Philadelphia club Stalag 13.

* 13 July 1944 –-evacuation of Stalag Luft VI at Heydekrug in Lithuania begins, to Stalag Luft IV at Gross Tychow involving a force march and 60hr journey by ship to Swinemunde, or by force march and cattle train to Stalag XX-A at Thorn in Poland.

The airmen in the show Hogan's Heroes were imprisoned in fictitious Stalag Luft 13 near Hammelburg.

The film was shot on location in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as well as on a segment of street constructed in the corner of the former RKO Forty Acres backlot where the " Stalag 13 " sets for TV's " Hogan's Heroes " had been located during the lot's Desilu and later ownership.

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Except for housekeeping chores benefiting POW, no work was performed in the Stalag.

Hollywood also made its own contribution to the genre with The Great Escape ( 1963 ) and the fictional Stalag 17 ( 1953 ).

" Time also liked Holden's performance, describing it as his best since Stalag 17 ( a 1953 film that earned Holden an Oscar ), said Robert Ryan gave " the screen performance of his career " and concluded that " The Wild Bunch contains faults and mistakes " ( such as flashbacks " introduced with surprising clumsiness "), but " its accomplishments are more than sufficient to confirm that Peckinpah, along with Stanley Kubrick and Arthur Penn, belongs with the best of the newer generation of American film makers.

Conflict later set up its own Mortarhate Records label, which put out releases by other artists including Hagar the Womb, Icons of Filth, Lost Cherrees, The Apostles, Exitstance, Stalag 17, Admit You're Shit and Potential Threat.

In total, the Mannschafts-Stammlager Stalag VIIIC and its subsidiaries held over 300, 000 prisoners from some 30 different countries.

* The song or its melody has also been used in many movie soundtracks, including Cavalcade, 1933 Gone with the Wind, 1939 ( a Confederate military band plays it in the background of a scene taking place in Atlanta ); The Great Dictator, 1940 ; Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1942 ; Stalag 17, 1953 ( it is sung by American prisoners of war ); The Horse Soldiers, 1959 ; How The West Was Won, 1962 ; Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 1964 ; The Crazies, 1973 ; Born on the Fourth of July 1989 ; Die Hard with a Vengeance 1995 ; The Second Civil War, 1997 ; and Antz, 1998.

It had rather more similarities to the real-life Stalag Luft III, which was the scene of a famous mass prisoner escape involving an elaborate tunnel system.

He was imprisoned at Oflag IX-A / H near Spangenberg and in February 1941 moved to Stalag XX-A near Thorn in German-occupied western Poland.

Despite being an officers-only camp, it was referred to as a Stalag camp rather than Oflag ( Offizier Lager ) as the Luftwaffe had their own nomenclature.

In World War II the facility was home of the 392nd Infantry Division and the site of several prisoner-of-war camps including Stalag XVII-C and Oflag XVII-A ( from June 1940 ) near the abandoned village of Edelbach.

McQueen played the lead in the next big Sturges film, 1963's The Great Escape, which gave Hollywood's depiction of the otherwise true story of an historical mass escape from a World War II POW camp, Stalag Luft III.

This allowed for another kind of sketch: the staged ' historical drama ', which usually parodied genuine historical television plays or films ( such as Stalag 17, Antony and Cleopatra, or Napoleon and Josephine ).

The Royal Air Force Special Investigation Branch also had an interest in Müller with regards to the Stalag Luft III murders, for which he was presumed to have responsibility given his position in the Gestapo.

Beyrle was taken to the Stalag III-C POW camp in Alt Drewitz, from which he escaped in early January 1945.

Wielen is significant in that he was directly implicated in the Stalag Luft III murders, in which members of the RAF who were involved in the " Great Escape " were killed.

In addition, the German Wehrmacht has set up the infamous Stalag 342 for the Soviet prisoners of war there, in which at least 30, 000 people were killed.

On 8 February they reached Stalag III-A located about south of Berlin near Luckenwalde, which already held 20, 000 prisoners, consisting mainly of soldiers from Britain, Canada, the U. S. and Russia.

Fort VIII Stalag XXI-D from which Sinclair escaped in a handcart

He flew Spitfires in World War II on many defensive and offensive missions, including an attack on the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, culminating in " big wing " fighter sweeps over France, on one of which, in March 1942, he was shot down and was caught by the Gestapo, twice being sentenced to death before being " rescued " by the German Luftwaffe, and shipped off to Stalag Luft III.

* from Stalag Luft IV at Gross Tychow in Pomerania the prisoners faced a 500 mile trek in blizzard conditions across Germany, during which hundreds died, and ;

* a march from Stalag VIII-B, known as the " Lamsdorf Death March ", which was similar to the better-known Bataan Death March ( 1942 ) in terms of mortality rates.

* The " southern route ", from Stalag VIII-B ( formerly Stalag VIII-D ) at Teschen ( not far from Auschwitz ) which led through Czechoslovakia, towards Stalag XIII-D at Nuremberg and then onto Stalag VII-A at Moosburg in Bavaria.

The marches began in July 1944, at Stalag Luft VI at Heydekrug, when thousands of western Allied POWs were marched either to Stalag Luft IV at Gross Tychow ( a journey which also involved a 60 hour journey by ship ) to Swinemunde ), or to Stalag XX-A at Thorn in Poland ( with part of the distance covered by cattle train ).

In World War II, the German Air Force operated Stalag Luft in which flying personnel, both officers and non-commissioned officers were held.

The World War II play Stalag 17, which was made into the 1953 movie Stalag 17, was set in Stalag XVII-B, located near Krems, Austria.