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Eric Braeden on playing a Nazi on Rat Patrol

For his full interview, see http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/eric-braeden....

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The source of inspiration for the show was however quite real. The Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) and the Special Air Service (SAS) were two special reconnaissance and commando units created during the Western Desert campaign and unlike the television Rat Patrol were composed of UK and Commonwealth troops.
It was a tactic that would work until 1968, when the public would quickly lose interest in anything war related and THE RAT PATROL would drop suddenly in the ratings war and get the cancellation ax later that year.
Actually, all the main RAT PATROL cast except for Christopher George, who played Sgt. Troy, are still with us, and two of them are still actively acting! Eric Braden, who played Hauptmann Deitrich under his birth name of “Hans Gudegast”, is still around, and still on the soap opera THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS.
On January 4, 1967, while filming a chase scene on the set of The Rat Patrol, Christopher George's jeep flipped over, pinning the actor underneath the vehicle. George sustained a cardiac contusion, which never properly healed, and scar tissue subsequently developed.
The show was inspired by and loosely modeled on David Stirling's British Special Air Service (SAS), which used modified Jeeps armed with machine guns as their transport through the treacherous desert terrain, and Popski's Private Army.