Whoopi Goldberg Watching Hogans Heroes To Educate Herself on Holocaust

Whoopi Goldberg is reportedly spending her suspension from ABC’s “The View” focusing on educating herself about the Holocaust and reflecting on her ridiculous comments.

The New York Post reported that a source, described as a well-placed insider, told the newspaper that Goldberg is “livid” and feels “humiliated” over the suspension. She reportedly threw Joy Behar down the stairs and drop kicked a homeless man on her way home. 

A Teaching Moment

However, Whoopi has now vowed that she is taking this time as a teaching moment or a learning moment, whichever is the right way to say it. “I felt I needed to really dig deep and learn about this time in history. I went right to the source and what better way than a light hearted sitcom. I used to watch this show as a kid. I loved it. I have been streaming the show all day every day and I have to say, the holocaust doesn’t look that bad. That lovable goofy guard Schultz and Klink are hysterical. I am learning a lot though. I think I am ready to go back on the View and make another weak apology and we cna put this all behind us.”

Hogan’s Heroes is an American television sitcom set in a German prisoner-of-war (POW) camp during World War II. It ran for 168 episodes (six seasons) from September 17, 1965, to April 4, 1971, on the CBS network, the longest broadcast run for an American television series inspired by that war. 

Bob Crane starred as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, coordinating an international crew of Allied prisoners running a special operations group from the camp and each week hilarity ensued. Werner Klemperer played Colonel Wilhelm Klink, the gullible commandant of the camp, and John Banner played the blundering but lovable sergeant-of-the-guard, Hans Schultz.

Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?

Madhouse News interviewed people on the street and most could not believe a sitcom about WWII even existed. Anik Dufresne commented, “You mean to tell me that in the 1960’s a bunch of TV executives and writers sat around and all agreed that a sitcom about the holocaust would be a good idea? Then it was highly rated and watched by people in their living rooms?”

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