Clary: Today, at that apartment house where I spent the first 16 years of my life, there is a plaque over the door which says: 'In memory of the 112 inhabitants of this house, including 40 young children, deported and dead in German camps, 1942.'
(on his portrayal of LeBeau on Hogan's Heroes) Clary: When the show went on the air, people asked me if I had any qualms about doing a comedy series dealing with Nazis and concentration camps. I had to explain that it was about prisoners of war in a stalag, not a concentration camp, and although I did not want to diminish what soldiers went through during their internments, it was like night and day from what people endured in concentration camps.
(breaking his personal silence about Nazi interment) Clary: For 36 years I kept these experiences during the war locked up inside myself. But those who are attempting to deny the Holocaust, my suffering and the suffering of millions of others have forced me to speak out.
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Clary has published an autobiography entitled "From the Holocaust to Hogan's Heroes."
PBS aired a documentary entitled "Robert Clary A-5714, A Memoir of Liberation" with Clary's participation. It detailed his life as a Nazi prisoner.
After his role in the wildly popular
Clary emigrated to the United States in October, 1949 and began to record music for the Capitol label.
Robert Clary began singing professionally at the age of 12.
Clary was the youngest of fourteen children.
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