Did You Know?

Werner Klemperer, Howard Caine, Leon Askin, and John Banner, who play the chief Germans Klink, Hochstetter, Burkhalter and Schultz, were in fact all Jewish.

Werner Klemperer only agreed to play Col. Klink once he was assured (by the show's creator) that Klink would never succeed in his schemes.

In the original black and white pilot, General Burkhalter was originally a colonel.

Among the recurring characters who appeared on the show were female French resistance fighter Tiger (played by Arlene Martel), Marya the White Russian (played by Nita Talbot) and the bumbling R.A.F. officer Colonel Crittendon (played by Bernard Fox).

Howard Caine appeared earlier in two episodes playing different characters before he took on the role of Major Hochstetter.

Col. Klink and Sgt. Schultz nicknamed Cpl. LeBeau "Cockroach."

The character of Sergeant Schultz, prior to the war, had been the president of a successful toy manufacturing company. Colonel Klink had previously been a bookkeeper.

Even though Klink acts like a coward, his military decorations indicate he is a combat hero from both WWI and WW II.

Most night scenes are filmed using a "Day for Night" lens which is a special lens used to make scenes filmed during the day to look like night.

Although the show was a hit in syndication in Germany, certain liberties had to be taken. It's illegal to say "Heil Hitler" in Germany today (and is considered bad taste), so when the German soldiers gave the party salute, the characters said, "How high is your corn?" The absurdity of it all was especially funny to German viewers. Also, anytime the show alluded to actual bombing and killing, the dialog there was modified as well. For instance, when the Americans destroyed a munitions factory, the German version made it a toilet paper factory. And when Sgt. Schulz reported the Allies having bombed Hamburg, it was revised to the Royal Air Force dropping planeloads of candy as a "propaganda maneuver".

Salt was used to represent snow.

Richard Dawson auditioned for the role of Hogan, but lost to Bob Crane. This led to friction between the two actors and when Crane was killed in 1978, Dawson did not attend the funeral.

The set of Stalag 13 was built on the spot where the plantation house Tara once stood in Gone with the Wind - on the 40-acre back lot at Culver City that was also home for Mayberry in The Andy Griffith Show and Camp Henderson in Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C..

General Burkhalter's Iron Cross is the "Knight's Cross with diamonds and swords".

Whenever Colonel Hogan wanted to butter up Colonel Klink, he would refer to him as "The Iron Colonel" or "The Iron Eagle".

Newkirk and Le Beau made most of the German uniforms that were worn by Hogan's men.

Ivan Dixon ('Kinch') left the series at the end of the fifth season (the only regular cast member to do so), stating that he was fed up with the posturings of Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer and Richard Dawson. He was replaced by Kenneth Washington for the final 24 episodes. Also, there was no mention of what happened to Kinch following Dixon's departure.

For the first several seasons the "snow" on the roofs and on the ground was actually salt. By the fourth season much of the snow on the roofs had been replaced by patches of white paint. By the sixth season all the patches of snow on the roofs and many of the patches of snow on the ground, especially in the high traffic areas, were also just paint.

The Stalag 13 outdoor set was located at the NW corner of the Forty Acres back lot in Culver City, CA. After the series cancellation, the set was used as Medical Camp 9 in the Nazi sexploitation thriller Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS. It was also used in the Mission: Impossible episode "Trial By Fury" where it doubled as a South American prison. The back lot was bulldozed in 1976 and is now an industrial park. The location was previously used for the Tara plantation facade in Gone with the Wind.

Ivan Dixon's character's name was "Kinchloe". There was a test pilot who was killed named Iven Kincheloe.

Cast traveling outside of Germany: Hogan and Klink traveled to London, England. Hogan, Kinch, Klink, LeBeau, and Schultz traveled to Paris, France.

Cast who were never seen in women's clothing: Baker (Season 6), Kinch (Seasons 1-5), and Klink.

Characters appearing in every episode: Hogan and Klink.