Author's note: And finally, here's the concluding epilogue. Thanks to everyone that has stuck with this story to the very end, and for all your comments and reviews! :)

Disclaimer: I don't own Hogan's Heroes or any of the characters; I merely borrow them and play with them for a while.

Newkirk

They're sitting at the kitchen table, him and Mavis, looking through an album with old photographs from their childhood that they've found in the attic.

They're pointing at the pictures, laughing and reminiscing together. And then, as he looks at Mavis' smiling face and gleaming eyes, he realizes that suddenly it feels just like it used to do back then, before the war came between them.

Schultz

When he first notices it, he thinks he imagines it, because it's been so long that he doesn't really remember what it used to look like.

But as he stares at Karl's face, he realizes it is truly there. It is not a figment of his imagination, nor mere wishful thinking. For the first time since his son came home from the front, there is a real smile on his face.

Kinch

Her name is Alice. His fiancée. She tells him that things are changing, she can feel it in the air, in the people around them. Soon, things will be different. Their children will not have to grow up the way they had to.

And he finds, one day, that he actually believes her.

Klink

As he opens the door, Greta immediately rushes to greet him, glad to see him home again.

He pats her head, smiling at her, and she wags her tail at him, barking happily. The show of unconditional love makes his heart jolt a little from sheer happiness, and he is once more grateful he finally got around to buying that German Shepard he always wanted.

LeBeau

In the end, he bought a house in Paris, the city that no longer felt like it was his. It wasn't a particularly beautiful house, nor was it very big or modern. But he bought it anyway.

Because inside, it smelled just like the house that he grew up in. And now, he has a small part of Paris that still feels like home.

Burkhalter

The officers club meet only once every other week, and then it's in a small, run-down house in a rather dingy quarter. But that doesn't matter.

Because during those times, everything is like it was then. He is once more surrounded be people who realize the importance of an officer's values, values that, despite what has happened to Germany, are clearly not yet dead.

Carter

He never did get the degree in chemistry that he had so often fantasized about in his youth. But he did go to university, after all, to study pharmacy.

Because he realized, one day, that all his extensive knowledge of chemistry could still be of use. Not to kill people as a demolition expert, but to help them as a pharmacist.

Hilda

Though she doubted it would ever happen, in the end she did find that big love that all her friends were always talking excitedly about, but few ever experienced. They even married, with her shining like the sun in her white wedding gown.

And she realizes, now, that she understands her brother Friedrich. Because she would have moved anywhere in the world to be with Klaus.

Tiger

It is late in the evening, and she brushes her hair out, preparing for bed.

It is not until she pulls the blue-striped cover aside that she realizes, that for the first day since the war ended, she hasn't been thinking even once about that Gestapo cell.

Hochstetter

His cell is dark and dreary, and the prison walls grey and looming. Still, there is hope.

He found out soon after arriving here, that there are many others here like him. And as long as people like them are still alive, the fight isn't over. One day, they will be free, and National Socialism can and will rise again, as long as they continue fighting for it.

Marya

Back in Germany, she met a man named Mikhail, a Russian officer. His entire village had been slaughtered by the Germans, and like her, he has no family or home to go back to.

But that's alright, because they still have each other. They can create their own home.

Langenscheidt

In the end, he did not become a writer. Instead, he decided to go into publishing.

And now, the book he's waited for so long to be published by his company is finally in print, and he can't help but feel gratitude and pride that he is allowed to play a part in making sure that this will never be forgotten. He turns the book, Memories of a Concentration Camp Survivor, around in his hand; it is a tragic testament, but he will make sure it is told nevertheless.

Gertrude

There is no more love between her and her husband than on the day of their marriage. But it doesn't matter. Because in the end, he gave her the greatest gift she could ever have gotten.

It's a miracle, really, because after giving birth to her daughter, the doctors told her she could probably never have children again, and besides, she should be far too old by now. Smiling, she puts a hand on her stomach and the new life that is now somehow, impossibly, growing inside of her.

Crittendon

It is a glorious day; the RAF is celebrating a jubilee, and there are parades and orchestras and smiling people everywhere, many of them wearing officer's uniforms like him.

But the best part is no doubt the flower decorations. He smiles happily as he looks at the geraniums, grateful that he finally got the chance to make decorations for a joyous occasion.

Helga

The woman was scruffy and badly dressed as she came to the hospital, even her shoes had holes in them, but she still smiled like the most blessed person in the world when Helga put her newly delivered baby into her arms.

And it was worth it all for the chance to see a new life come into the world after seeing so much death during the war. She knows, then, that in the end, she did choose the right profession.

Hogan

The hand grabbing his sleeve for attention is small and unobtrusive, but the woman persistent nonetheless as she asks him whether he is Colonel Robert E. Hogan. She explains that she is the wife of Martin Koch, a man wanted by the Gestapo that he helped get out of Germany, and she has waited a long time for this opportunity to thank him for what he did.

He has never met anyone after the war like this, not someone personally affected by what he did. And that's when he realizes that even if he couldn't help them all, or even most, helping even a few still made it all worth it.