The Oddity of Hogan's Heroes, the comedy of tragedy.

 From 1965 to 1971, CBS ran a farce sitcom based on the notion of a WW-II prisoner of war camp run by the Nazis that – in actuality – served as an Allied base of covert intelligence and maneuvers … the lunatics-running-the-asylum, writ large. Hogan’s Heroes was in the Top Twenty television ratings for its first two seasons and ran for 168 episodes. 


So, if we are to believe the narrative of WW2, how on earth would the same control structure make a sitcom based on bumbling buffoonish Germans being outwitted by POWs?   6 million were killed, tortured, and abused, yet CBS thinks a sitcom appropriate in the setting of this "war".


They also went on to do a sitcom based on the Korean War, MASH. 

Let us not forget Mel Brooks playing Hitler.


For the same reason, this brings to mind the inexplicable phenomenon of Dancing Nurses during the Great Pandemic of 2020.





So supposedly in the deadly Great Pandemic of 2020, the health care workers are dancing, making videos, and posting them online.  Were they authentic?  AI-generated?  Where is the boundary between fiction and reality? In SCREENWORLD, they merge.



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