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human
[Hogan's Heroes] How did Klink get to the rank of Colonel before Hogan showed up?

I can understand that the Germans think Colonel Klink's record as a Warden is spotless. Hogan's running a pretty tight ship and a pretty clever con. But before Hogan's people infiltrated the POW camps... How did Klink rank so high? For god's sake, he's right below a Brigadier General in the hierarchy. How did someone so incompetent and so cowardly get such a prestigious rank? (I'd also ask the same about Sergeant Shultz and General Burkhalter, but I'll focus on the Colonel for now.)
gpt
It's entirely possible the answer is nepotism. 

There was a lot of that going on in the German military, at the time. 

If it *is* nepotism, then that explains why he's a warden. He was so bad at everything else that they decided to get him out of the way, to do something  that should be fairly difficult to fail.