post World War II Movie satire...!

[Noman]

Years ago I saw a movie on TV...the only scene I rememeber was a US WWII Veteran telling his wife as they are crossing a town square in Europe..about how he singlehandly caused the entire german army to retreat...at the same time a German WWII is crossing the same square diagonally and also telling his wife the very same story...about how he caused the entire allied armies to retreat. Both couples pass one another oblivious....Ca anyone rememeber the name of that movie? I think the german was played by jewish Austrian comedian actor Leon Askin aka General Burkhalter of Hogans Heros....

 

Speaking of Legends...the late Leonard Hill of Piqua, Ohio was a well known historian of the town and county history...he also had a newspaper colomon for the "Piqua Daily Call" newspaper...in one article he mentioned that a 1873 newspaper article claimed that after

a thunderstorm a tree had blown down and a skeleton was found inside it...a diary was found claiming that the deceased had been Roger Vandenberg..a former aide to general Washington and that he had hidden from St Clairs Defeat in 1791...

https://books.google.com/books?id=dWtFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA828&dq=Roger+vandenberg+st+clair's+defeat&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjGj-6i9IzZAhXDx1kKHUh-Ct8Q6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=Roger%20vandenberg%20st%20clair's%20defeat&f=false

 

 

http://www.strangehistory.net/2015/10/04/victorian-urban-legends-bodies-in-trees/

 

it even received mention of a DAR Ohio Soldiers and Sailors American Revolution publication. Alas however...the story was fictional...Hill wrote a follow up article that the incident never happened ...that the author was a local writer...of the 19th century.

Likewise no Roger Vandenberg served as a aide to general Washington

While I cannot find it now I came across a internet article that the origan of the story was from a novel published 1862-1863...

[RustyCanteen]

The first one may have been "The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz", which had many cast members in common with "Hogan's Heroes" and may have featured the scene you describe. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063805/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_21

[Guest Canuck770]

I can picture that scene clearly. I think it's from a film called "If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium". I remember seeing it on TV as a kid. It was a comedy about a bus tour of Europe I think, but recall little else of the plot.