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 VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Leon Askin, the actor who played Gen. Albert Burkhalter in the 1960s television comedy "Hogan's Heroes," has died, Austrian officials said Friday.
The actor was 97. Neither city officials nor the Vienna hospital where he died disclosed the cause or date of his death.
Askin was best known for his role as the Nazi general who constantly threatened to send the prisoner of war camp's inept commander, Col. Wilhelm Klink, to the Russian front because of his stupidity.
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