Popular Culture
The rank of Oberst is known in American cinema, since several popular movies (such as The Great Escape, Stalag 17, The Eagle Has Landed and Hart's War) have featured characters holding the rank. American stereotypes of an Oberst usually entail a World War II era Wehrmacht officer, sometimes wearing a monocle, speaking English with a heavy German accent and usually up to some sinister plan to foil the Allies. Luftwaffe Colonel Klink of the television series Hogan's Heroes was a caricature of such a stereotype.
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