...actually, the Nazis took control of Germany in 1933, and that's when Klemperer's father Otto left Germany to become Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic; the family followed him to Los Angeles within the next two years...Lkeller said:Interestingly, both Werner Klemperer (Colonel Klink) and John Banner (Corporal Schultz) were Jewish - Klemperer from Germany (his family left in 1935, before Nazi control) and Banner from Austria.