Colonel Hogan (Bob Crane) double crosses every German officer he encounters in this episode: General Burkhalter (Leon Askin), the Kommandants from the other stalags, even Kommandant Klink (Werner Klemperer), although in the end he saves Klink. In the opening scene he tells Sergeant Schultz (John Banner) that in retaliation for the Nazi's trying to recruit Allied POWs to join the Luftwaffe he was going to send German pilots to England to recruit German POWs and fight against Germany and those recruits would be called "The Schultz Brigade". At the end of the episode, he is sending the two Luftwaffe officers to England to do just that.
Klink is the only one in his military class that has not made General. Several of the others have been killed in action, and several more have been shot by the authorities.
Colonel Burmeister is the Kommandant of STALAG 10, Colonel Bussie is the Kommandant of STALAG 19. It was not stated where these two camps are located.