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Old 30th Mar 2012, 08:23
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Kharon
 
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99 is not the 100 it's worth.

Willkommen zurück Sour`Kraut.

The guys certainly have identified the Bavarian flavor of this on going, tyre destroying bunfight. The spin seems to cover the glaring obscenities , so all is well. The only character omitted appears to be the fearless leader.

May I offer the following as food for thought, every outfit needs a clearly defined 'leader' of men (and the other ones, uhhmm, wotcha call 'em again) ; anyway - I commend as the antagonist :-

Wikipedia -Colonel Klink: Kommandant Oberst (Colonel) Wilhelm Klink (Werner Klemperer) is an old-line Luftwaffe officer of aristocratic (Junker) Prussian descent, and a social climber. He was born in Leipzig in the early 1890s, though he refers to Düsseldorf, where he attended the Gymnasium (high school) (graduating 43rd in his class), as his home town.
After failing the entrance exams to study law or medicine, he received an appointment from Kaiser Wilhelm II to a military academy, through the influence of his uncle, the Bürgermeister's barber, and graduated 95th in his class – the only one who has not risen to the rank of general. However, when questioned by Colonel Hogan, Colonel Klink admits that many of his higher-ranking classmates have been killed in action or shot by Hitler.
The nearest he ever comes to General is when Hogan tricks the German General Staff into thinking Klink will be the General to repel the D Day invasion. When faced with a decision whether to move the German reserves to Normandy or not Klink can only order more champagne!

He has fencing armor in his dining room and wears a monocle. In one episode it shows him sleeping with the monocle in, but in another, he wakes up and puts it on. [This monocle often reflects an image of the round studio lights.] One episode has a brief shot of his office showing that Klink has a pompous coat of arms on his wall.
In another episode when he thinks he is going to be rich, he claims his 500-year-old name will finally have some money as well.
A veteran aviator of the First World War, Klink happily lives out the end of his military career in the relative comfort and safety of a prison camp commandant's billet - although in one episode he wished he was piloting a Heinkel bomber again, and also wants his old bomb group back. {Even as a pilot his skills are suspect: during World War I he panicked and crashed which resulted in his passenger ace "The Blue Baron" {a parody of The Red Baron} with a permanent limp}.
He has been stuck at the rank of colonel for 20 years with an efficiency rating a few points above "miserable".
In a few episodes Klink is seen wearing the Pour le Mérite (or The Blue Max); Iron Cross and the Parachutist Badge.
All you boys need is a 'Hogan', comes the hour comes the man; perhaps.
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