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Series:	Hogan's Heroes
Episode:	Is General Hammerschlag Burning?
Original Airdate:	November 18, 1967
Production Number:	5784-72
Written by:	Richard M. Powell
Directed by:	Edward H. Feldman
Produced by:	Edward H. Feldman & William A. Calihan

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In Paris, Hogan uses an entertainer's friendship with a General and someone who went to high school with Kinchloe as part of a plan to get plans for the defense of Paris.

This is the seventy-second produced episode of the series, but is the seventy-third episode to be shown on television and is the eleventh episode shown for the Third Season.
The episode's title alludes to the title of the 1966 war film, Is Paris Burning?.
This is the second and last time that Kinch (not Hogan) gets the girl.
As part of a running gag in the story, Kinch and Hogan's roles are reversed, with Hogan having to play the subordinate in order to achieve their mission.

This episode appears to take place sometime after the Normandy landings in France on June 6, 1944, but before the Liberation of Paris on August 25, 1944.
The fictional General Hammerschlag is filling the part played in real life by General Dietrich von Choltitz. His orders were to put Paris to the torch rather than let it be recaptured by the Allies (hence the title of both the movie and episode). Choltitz's plans were foiled by the French underground, who sponsored heavy resistance within Paris itself as the Allied armies approached - even going to far as to capture some German tanks and use them against Choltitz's forces. Choltitz decided to surrender the city peacefully, and was allowed to leave with his forces and gear before the Allies arrived.
The character of Kumasa is loosely based on the real-life torch singer Josephine Baker, who had to leave America (due to her skin color) in order to achieve success. She became famous in Paris between the two World Wars.
We get some background on Kinch in this episode. He went to high school in Detroit, Michigan. One of his classmates was Carol Dukes, who would later become Kumasa. Dukes secretly had a crush on Kinch, but he was unaware of it at the time. She was aware of his being drafted into the Army (in 1942?).
When Schultz goes into the barracks to talk to Col. Hogan, he refers to the last time Klink went to Paris, when Hogan and LeBeau also rode on the roof of the staff car, in the two-part episode, "A Tiger Hunt In Paris".

Barbara McNair accidently calls Ivan Dixon's character, Kinchloe, by his real first name, Ivan, in the episode. (Actually, Kinch's full name was Ivan James Kinchloe. Sometimes he was referred to by either James or Ivan in other episodes)

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