The Three Stooges In Germany?

Were The Three Stooges (shorts or movies) ever popular in Germany? I don’t remember them being shown on television, but that means nothing since we didn’t own one when I was little.

If they were shown, what were they called?

Laurel and Hardy were known as Dick Und Doof which translates loosely into Fat And Stupid.

A GOOGLE advanced search returned no results.

Thanks

Der Quas’

I searched for “the three stooges” on google, German pages only. (I speak German, but I’ve never lived there) There were 747 hits. I skimmed through the first pages, and all hits were about a video game that was apparently once made.

If the TV shows/movies ever were shown, you’d expect to see pages about it where the name appeared like “…and it was originally called The Three Stooges in English”.