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ObservationsBackground information

The show Hogan’s heroes is based in the time of World War II. In this show they are in a prisoner of war camp run by Germans. There is Hogan who is the leader and he has 4 men thatwork with him lebou the cook, kinch the radio man, newkerk the magician he is hard to explainhe has many talents, and carter the ammunition man. They are in a prisoner of war camp andthey are trying to do one of two thing while they are in this camp. They are either helping

prisoners to escape and or hurt the germens at all cost. It is a comedy type of show.Figured world- an area or scene in the world that contain i nteractions of many dif ferent

people (Example coffee shop, mall )

My figure world is from an old TV show called Hogan’s heroes. The world I amobserving is the stalag that the prisoners are in. a stalag is the German word for camp it isa prisoner of war camp. The camp is for noncommissioned officers and enlisted men. Inthis place it is like its own world. In the stalag there are interactions between all the

prisoners and their commandant. There are also rules that are put into place in the campamong lots of other things. It is its own society in a sense. In this world the prisonershave their own events like playing all different sports and the can also do different crafts;on the other hand, they can be kind of political and ask for things from the Red Crossamongst other corporations. Now, in the camp the appropriate behaviors are to live a

normal prison life by having some fun but too much and you can play games of all kinds.Everything to do as a group has to be approved by the commandant. All in all you can domost anything; however, something that are not allowed in the stalags are gambling anddigging tunnels, which is self-explanatory, you also have a lights out time where youhave to be in bed at that time and you can’t go outside the barracks after roll call. Themajor groups of people interactions are the senior prisoner of war officer andcommandant, commandant and his men and prisoner to prisoner.

Actors- a person that pl ays a role in a group or event.

Col. Robert Hogan: he is the leader of a small underground organization in the heart ofGermany. He is the senior prisoner of war officer. He takes the responsibility for the little

group. He is a very inquisitive person and no matter what happens he keeps his cool. Heis in an all-male prisoner of war camp. He keeps the Germans off his track with hissuperior intellect.

Col. Wilhelm Klink : he is the commander of the stalag. His tittle is known ascommandant of the camp. He is not very bright and tries to do the right thing but alwaysseems to fall just short. Col. Hogan is always causing Klink trouble in every way hemakes Klink think he is doing the right thing as commandant but it is not really. He islet’s just say very gullible and he has a lifelong dream to one day become general.

Sgt. Hans Schultz: sergeant Shultz is the sergeant of the guard at stalag 13. He also playthe role of col. Klink’s aid. He has a very unique personality for a guard at a prisoner ofwar camp. He is the guard of col. Hogan’s barracks. He doesn’t want to make any troublefor himself. He also has a key phrase “I see nothing I hear nothing “

Artifacts- physical i tems that have a special meaning fr om history

The Idea of helping prisoners to escape- I this Idea the group of what can be called

unsung heroes risk it all to help defecting Germans, shot down air men. This Idea is soimportant to the show that without it there would be nothing.

Commented [NR1]: If you could maybe haveinformation in your background information thbe really helpful to someone who has never sshow. FOr example if you could include, WHYalways trying to help prisoners escape or whynot like the Germans would be helpful. To youmost people I’m sure it's blatantly obvious whdon't like the germans but you should pretendwriting these observations to someone with no

Commented [NR2]: In your background inforyour description of Hogan and is four men is asentence. The way you currently have it phraleaves me wanting more information about thI think it would give the reader a bet ter idea oexpect from the show if you expounded on thedescriptions. You could do this by presenting

Commented [NR3]: Overall your paper has j

everything it needs. I just think certain aspectimprovement. I’ve mentioned a few specifics aThe main two are to expand your definitions amake the observations more reader friendly. Athing that could help with your observations isquotes to break up your description of the sce

Commented [NR4]: I feel we didn't receivinformation in the definitions, background inetc, to really make someone interested in wchose to observe this show. Although it reainteresting show, you should try to make yobackground information so intriguing that it whover is reading it to go on and want to le

Commented [NR5]: you mention a girl, in an group, in both observation one and two. She mminor character, but I would assume she hasdistinct role to play. I think it would be a good add info about her in your actors list, as well a

other characters you mention a lot, like newki

Commented [NR6]: Adding to your actors lisreally make a large difference for someone wbasic understanding of what the show is abouwould put more characters and descriptions inlocation I would be able to understand why cecharacters respond the way they do throughoshow.

Commented [NR7]: I liked the examples youyour definitions, but I’d like to see more. In boartifacts and domain there is one example eafeel that adding more would make it easier tounderstand the show, and extrapolate bigger You could break down bugger categories intosubcategories and expound on those for exam

Commented [NR8]: Your definitions for the kvocabulary and the examples from the show tshow that you understand these key terms. Hthink you should expand your definitions to futhe reader what the terms mean. I also think yinclude more on how your examples relate to definitions. I was confused by the “Idea of hel



Domain- it is the shared goals and learni ng form one another thr ough ideas people and

dif ferent items.

Stalag 13 tunnels- the thought of there being no way to dig a tunnel during war time and being able to use it for a underground network for escaping prisoners. These tunnels haveeverything from a dark room to a laboratory, radio room, and a fitting room.

Community of practice - a group of people that are alike by having the interest and goals in

mind.

Prisoners of war-Hogan, Lebeau, Newkirk, Carter, Kinch these men all share the interestto help get their fellow prisoners of war escape from the Germans and all believe incolonel Hogan’s ability as a leader and part of the underground.

Germans-major Wolfgang Hochstetter, sergeant Shultz and colonel Klink this group of people all sharing the same ideas to guard the prisoners and are fighting for he all

victorious 3rd

right and keep on trying to beat the allies but all seem to fall just short ofthat feet.

Practices of the community- the practices are the things or activity’s that the different

communi ties that have the same goal in mind

Sending prisoners to London- they send out of the camp with all the supplies that theyneed to get them to England. Each one of Hogan’s men is in charge of a special part of

getting them ready to send out.

Making it difficult for the germens- Hogan and his men have a second practice and thatis by hurting the German war effort. The way they do this is by either blowing up thing ormaking things look bad and or stealing thing from the germens.

The War- now the germens have the shared goal of trying to win the war and stop thesabatosh around stalag 13. The major is in charge of the police force for that area andKlink is in charge of the camp that the prisoners are in and the do different things tocontain Hogan and his men but nothing works.

Literacy practice- it i s a practice of speaking, wri ting, and reading.

Writing notes- the notes that get written are the ones that the underground pass throughdifferent ways and the notes that kinch the radio man takes from London that lets Hogando the thinking

Radio communication- radio communication is that of Hogan to the other short wavesett=s of the underground and the radio to the subs and to London. This communicationis used in every episode.

Observation 1 Hold That Tiger 1:45 Col.klink has called a formation to inform the prisoners on happenings from the war. He

goes on to say that they are building a new kind of tank called a tiger tank. The men act as theyhave no interest in the news. Then once they are dismissed col. Hogan then ask Klink it this panzer division id west and Klink says north and asks why he says he is just wondering. In thenext scene we find out Hogan’s plan is to steal a German tiger tank. Here is where his men askhow do they get the tank, how do we get it in here, where we go hide a tank, and where are wegoing to take it apart. Hagans response is I thought of stealing is the rest is details.

2:50 the next day inside the prisons camp I the barracks all of the men are starting to make roomfor the tiger tank. That they are going to steal then carter comes in and says that a guard is

Commented [NR9]: Your definitions for the kvocabulary and the examples from the show tshow that you understand these key terms. Hthink you should expand your definitions to futhe reader what the terms mean. I also think yinclude more on how your examples relate to definitions. I was confused by the “Idea of helprisoners to escape”. I get why this would havmeaning to the show but I don’t understand whelping them escape or how. Also for the “Statunnels” it would help if you could tell us whiccommunity(ies) contribute to this domain.

Commented [NR10]: I know it’s more like edI’m having trouble keeping the flow of yourobservations. Because there are a lot of differcharacters, and I’ve not seen the show myselroles are hard to keep track of. In your observyou often refer to multiple people in a sentencthen use references like him and his. I’m losinto who’s doing what, when, and having to piectogether from context. It’d probably help to bresentences up into smaller ones, or reduce theof unclear references

Commented [NR11]: I think you did a good jothe details in from the observations. You haveflow and succession of events that made the plot easy to understand. You had well placed transitions, and coordinated who was interactwhom well. It made sense as a progression oand you stuck to the important stuff without godetails in too much depth.

Commented [NR12]: I like the way your obseare formatted overall. it makes it really easy tounderstand and to follow along through the enI really enjoy the way i can tell you are really in the show and that definitely shows throughwriting style and the way you portray what haevery episode.



coming so they start to go hide everything then he says it is Shultz and they just go back to thesawing and nailing for the tiger tank. Shultz walks in all calm and then he sees the men and startsfreaking out and asking what’s going on and Hogan gives him a story about making a picturewindow. Then he tells Shultz about the tank and Shultz goes to his go to phrase I hear nothing Isee nothing and newkirk is dressed in a germen uniform. He starts to mess with Shultz and thenhe figures it out then he asks col. Hogan what he is doing in the uniform and tells him he hasgone too far and he must report this and he said the whole plan about the tank Shultz says I see

nothing I hear nothing I didn’t even get up this morning.

5:00 Hogan is I kinks office and he is filing a complaint that his men are being integrated by agystopo officer and Klink is going along with what Hogan says intend of doing his own research.Hogan got newkirk out of the camp the next scene Hogan is in the barracks explaining the planon a pull out map then they have a roll call at night. Shultz counts only 14 men instead of 15 andas he try to report newkirk comes in with the tank.he shows klink the orders for the tank col

hogan anouces that there is a prisoner missing.

10:30 once all of the men are inside newkirk drives the tank into the side of the barracks wherethe door was cut out. Later on carter says the search is still going on and lebeu comes through thetunnel. Where they find out she is a girl and hogan gets made cause she is a girl and the men loveit. the next day they try to make her a uniform and they have never had a girl. Hogan is tellingthem the plan then Shultz walked in and was saying how klink wants him in the office and thenhe notices tiger and he said this time he has gone too far I see nothing. Then Hogan goes to kinksoffice and gets the rec hall pad locked. Later he asks about the tiger tank and which gate it wentout of. He gets a call from general hafster wanting to know where it is and Klink is getting yelled

at by him about the tank and he says that he will come to get it if it is not found. Klink says thatthe prisoners have hidden the tank. Then they are getting ready for roll call and tell newkirk toget the tank ready. Then Hogan and tiger reconcile and make out in the col. Hogan’s office.

20:10 general hochstetter arrives at stalag 13 and goes to klink and explains the situation and he

says where my tank is and all is a colonel about to become corporal. And continues to yell atklink at the same time Hogan and Shultz are talking about tiger not being newkirk and then they

set off a diversion with the tiger tank tiger gets told that this is the biggest diversion they can getyou better get going then they kiss.

23:30 latter Hogan all the weird occurrences is a gystopo job to dis credit klink in berlin cause heis to perfect.

Observation 2 The Late Inspector General 1:00 col. Hogan and his men are in the barracks and talking about a plan to blow up a train. He

has a roll down screen that has a map on it of the whole plan. And is pointing at the parts and hismen are calling it out. He then tells the men that they do a good job and that they need to stick tothe script being kind of forceful then kinch comes in and says a guard is coming and they pulldown a second screen and it was a woman he then starts to explain what it is. When Shultzcomes in and asks what’s going on Hogan gives him a slick response then he asks if he wants toknow what they are really doing and he says no. then there is a roll call and Hogan has to go toKlink’s office so Hogan has to change his signal.

Commented [NR13]: I really enjoyed the actdescriptions of the episodes themselves. Althare not extremely long they still give enoughinformation to go on to understand what washappening. This made it easy to transition froto episode without having a difficult time undethe movement between the two. You did a greexplaining what was happening even when thfew words spoken.



3:00 Hogan goes to Klink’s office and Klink tells Hogan that general von platson the inspectorgeneral of the German prisoner of war camps is coming to stalag 13. Hogan freaks out and sayswhy wasn’t I notified Klink says why should you. Hogan not to be suspicious said why shouldn’tI be. Then Klink starts blabbering about how much the prisoners would like to get rid of him andHogan says of all things we would do anything to keep you. Klink’s says its flattery and not todo it little does he know about Hogan’s plan. Then he starts to blow his own horn about his

efficiency. Next one of Klink’s guard lets him know the general is right outside the building andKlink freaks out and said I gave strict instructions and then he realizes that he should not yell andhe throws Hogan out of the office. Then they meet the general and he start inspecting the girlthen they all head outside.

6:00 Hogan is trying to tell his men to cancel the plan but instead they go along with it and theexplosions are going off and as the plan when Hogan knew he had to stop it so he busted Olson

in the back of the dog truck. Then they go to the office general then asks Klink for a cigar and ifhe has any reason for the actions and his punishments for the escaping prisoner. Klink tells himabout how much Hogan would like to get rid of him and how he never trusted him. Hogan tookoffence to that and say an over worked prisoner population. Klink then finds out that he was not planning against him. and the general gives Klink this story that looks bad and Klink goes alongwith it and Hogan is defending him and then they find out that it is a good think he will be incharge of all prison camps. Hogan did a great selling job of Klink and that made him the right person.

12:15 Hogan walks into the barracks and he get all eyes and admits that he made Klink look

good so they decide they have to make him look bad so they have to wing it. Hogan quicklyexplains a simple plan. They arrive and make an inspections. Then newkirk starts his part of the plan with messing with the general. Then kinch turns on a radio tuned in to the BBC witch is anews network in London then they steal his wallet. The last straw and funny part is the hole Ifront of Klink’s office. Then he is losing his promotion.

17:45 Hogan’s men tell Hogan their plan to take the engine out of the general staff car. Hogan

doesn’t like it and tells them to germen uniforms on a staff car. Klink tries to save his promotionand he said forget it and then the general goes to leave and a smoke bomb inside the general carthen the general asks if he could arrest himself. Hogan’s men drove the general to the trainstation later Klink says that he doesn’t even hate Hogan for all of the happenings next Hogangives him a motivational speech from Napoleon. And the train blow up because he believed in amiracle. In the next scene Shultz goes into col. Hogan’s barracks and is explaining that he wantsHogan to give him the radio so he doesn’t have to take apart the barracks with his teeth. Hogansays ok and kinch takes him to a foot locker full of radios and says pick one. Most of all instead

of just taking one they make him pay for it and tells him it is tax deductible.

Observation 3 Gold Rush

1:12 in the bringing Shultz is bringing in a new prisoner to stalag 13 and col Hogan greets the prisoner and says welcome to the Adolph Hitler Biltmore and that it’s not so bad but you’ll beginto hate when Shultz intervenes and say that Hogan should not talk to the prisoner until he seesKlink. Klink then appears out of the office and is mad because they were four hours late getting

Commented [NR14]: At times I’ve had troubfollowing your observations. For instance in y

second observation you write, “Klink then finds

he was not planning against him. and the general

this story that looks bad and Klink goes along wit

Hogan is defending him and then they find out th

good think he will be in charge of all prison camps

part is tough to follow along with. I think you cou

it by breaking these two sentence into three or fo

way you don’t have to use “and” so many times.

know if this is more editing than revising but I

a couple times and it makes your observationfollow.



him back here. Hogan and his men are on the way back to the barracks trying to figure out whyShultz was late. Carter’s idea what a crazy story about meeting girls. In the next scene Hogan arelisting to Klink through the coffee pot tap. In the office they find out why Shultz was late and itwas for the gold bars to the bank. Shultz tell Klink that a big shipment of gold bars that werestolen from the bank of France. Klink called him stupid because he says when you defeat acountry you confiscate its gold. The prisoner captain martin says I don’t think you’re so stupid.Klink then begins to through his weight around. Then Hogan starts to plan to take the gold out of

circulation and he gets an idea to make a fake bombing attack and he tells kinch to get the planread because Klink will be calling for him any minute. Carter asks if they could get their hand onsome of those gold bares and Hogan says why not if we succeed Hitler writes a check and it bounces

5:10 in this scene Hogan gets called into Klink’s office and he is talking to the captain and isasking questions like does he like it here and Klink is acting all big and say that he doesn’t care

then Hogan has no problem talking about the program. He says he is a wonderful host and servesa great buffet. Then Klink says that no one has ever escaped from the stalag and top not gettalked into any dumb ideas. Sarcastically say there is a reward is the cooler witch is a solitaryconfinement. Klink then tell the captain to turn out his pockets and this is where the plan starts to begin. Hogan act like he dropped the gloves and he plants the paper on the captain. He thendecided to distract Klink and go for the paper and Klink catches him. He proceeds to reads the paper and figures out the are going to bomb the bank. Klink asks the captain that he know aboutthis and Hogan stops him. Klink’s thinks he has figured out how to mess up the captain’s plan.Hogan quickly spoils that by explaining the plan on his strategy. Then Hogan says they shouldkeep it at salag 13for a few days but why should Klink get involved. Klink is so dumb that the

takes Hogan’s suggestion and runs with it. Hogan the acts like it is a mistake.

9:15 Hogan and his men are outside cleaning and working front of Klink’s office. Shultz walksup and is shocked that they are working without being ordered. Hogan tells him that they are allvolunteers and Shultz says that I had better get out of here and I know nothing .next Klink shows

up and is wondering what’s going on and Hogan gives him a story about trying to make a goodimpression on the gestopo when the bring the gold in. he fools Klink an acts like nothing is going

on. Then lebou gets to work on sawing the steps for Klink to fall. Then they are all outside whenthey see Shultz come out and the think it’s all over but the steps didn’t break. Hogan thoughtlebou messed up the it happened Klink came out stepped down and timber. Hogan then blames iton saw tooth termites they all start laughing and Klink’s wants them rebuilt with wood butHogan quickly gets his mind to change and build them with brick and Klink agrees with him. Next the men get the bricks and start to work on the plan and Shultz asks why the pied the bricksup at the barracks Hogan says the have to see what they’re doing. The gold then arrives andKlink acting like a big man wants some credit for protecting the gold and that’s not a problem.

Then Hogan’s men go to take their positions to stop the truck

14:00 Shultz is guiding the truck behind barracks 12 and as he is pulling it through and lebou andcarter started to string a close line and Shultz freaked out and said halt. It is newkerks time tostrike and he flatten the tire with a dart then they check it out and Klink tells to get the major toget whatever he needs. When the major goes to the front of the truck newkirk puts a plate in thelock. In the next scene lebou and newkirk explain a plan to steal a gold block that’s worth 50000

Commented [NR15]: In the first paragraph oobservation three you use the phrase, “In the scene”. I think it would help the flow of your oif you made this into a seprate paragraph withtime beside it. I think this would break things ureader and give then a better idea of what is g Also if you create a new paragraph it’ll allow ymore details about this new scene.



marks. In the meantime newkirk is sneaking sleeping pills in to their coffee. Next Shultz givesthe guard coffee and they fall asleep. Hogan and his men then swap clothes with the guards andgo to stand guard to steal the gold. The plan was to then switch the gold with the bricks by passing it through the window and the tunnel. Newkirk gets challenged by the major and he is agood thinker on his feet to save the plan. He learned a lot that he could speak German. Then theycontinue to paint over the bricks and the gold. The next step was to pass them back through tothe truck and redress the guards and put them back. He awoke them and made it look like the just

fell asleep the next day the major left with the bricks covered with gold.as the men were buildingthe steps. The next day the major came back and said that some of the gold was missing and hehas to find it or he will be missing HAHA. The end

Interviews

Werner Klemperer How did you get the role as col. Klink in Hogan’s heroes? He had done roles of the same kind ofroles when I feld from Germany in 1935 my dad was a symphony conductor and I loved thiskind of role but the agent never said comedy when he asked me to play a commandant of a prisoner of war camp I said I’d love to. Then when I walked into edd Feldman’s office he said itis a comedy and I said you are out of your bloody mind but it workedTell me about your life after Hogan’s heroes? My life changed a lot when people saw me on thestreet before the recognized me but couldn’t remember form where, but now after when peolesee me the say hey colonel and I like that un like some people that don’t want to be known with ashow or movie I like it.

Tell me about your experiences with the show? My experiences were amazing the role was agreat role to play and the satire was written so great it made me want to play the role and I had alot of fun.How was it playing the role in the show? It was a role that I had felt very comfortable about playing since I had come from Hitler’s Germany and lots of my past roles were in the same kida

way.Tell me about your favorite part of the show? Working with the great bob crane how was very

outgoing and a great person and also the great big sergeant Shultz they were great people.

Rick RussoTell me about what interest you in Hogan’s heroes? First of all the tunnels they had that lead outthe camp. It was also the way they snuck around the Germans and kept them off their toes.Secondly is the Morris code to London with the relay messages it was just cool to see that. Thirdof all the operations of the stalag with the whole crew.it was a dream and thought it was real.Back in Pittsburg we used to love to play games like that and dig tunnels in the snow. Last of all

was Hogan ended up with all the woman.How did you first start watching the show? It was a weekly program always on. It only took onetime to catch on. I and my dad loved to watch and with him being a WWII vet it madeconnectionsWho is your favorite charter and why? Hogan, he was the leader he was a good leader. Healways kept Klink off his toes. Never let anybody catch on to what he was doing.

Commented [NR16]: I like the fact that you hmultiple interviews. The input from both the ch

and the actor, was a nice touch and it shows connections. I also like the fact that you intervyourself, it really adds context for the show as



Was Hogan’s heroes just entertainment of was their other reasons you watched it? Justentertainment for me. My dad looked at it different then me, he was in WWII, He also looked atit as entertainment his favorite was Shultz.

Col. Robert HoganHow did you earn the trust of the prisoners? i was the senior prisoner of war officer the men hadto show respect so I was already a leader. Then when London wanted to create a systm to get

prisoners out I was in to help. I was a very convincing person and my men were all in with me.How do you stay so calm all the time? If I didn’t stay calm the Germans would be able to see allof out planes as the unfolded. But by being a Colonel I had to learn to keep my men calm thatnever worked for carter he was always nervousExplain to me why you get all the girls? All I can say is that either you got it or you haven’t. Tell me why you never try to escape? There was an underground network in Germany and theyneeded a processing center for it. They said it was getting dangerous the way it way going down

so I agreed to do it when I got shot down and I found a good team.Conversations between you and Klink and you and Shultz how are the different? Theconversations wer e similar most of the time. However with Klink we couldn’t operate as usualwe had to keep the activities hidden. With Shultz we could do it right in front of him and healways would say I see nothing and I hear nothing. He never wanted to get in to any trouble.

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