Sorry you felt that way. We who were military broadcasters were dedicated news and information gatherers who witnessed and reported on some of the biggest events in post-war Germany. Fast Haus was a fantastic public affairs program that helped explain the role of support elements in U.S. Army Europe. Cheesy at times yes, but our viewership statistics indicated that a majority of viewers of AFN Europe knew the value of the program.

@@ihavenoideaaa1 lol, I’m pretty laid back and conservative as a person but it was hilarious watching it sometimes while watching the commentator try to make a extremely boring subject as interesting. We’re aware of policies that were in effect that limited what could be shown on the channel since it was usually dependents and kids but the closest decent show was one about a hotel. So as an Infantryman we had limited options for entertainment were slim since I don’t smoke, drink or hang around in bars. We’d watch tapes, laser disc movies and go to the theater on Jaeager Kaserne for something more current. Shows like “Friday night videos” would’ve been nice or something showing WWII history sites as they are today (for 1984-85) and discussing how the battles unfolded. Even if they showed something better aimed for our demographic aired past 0100 hours so we could set our VCR to record them would’ve been great. But we both know he daily line up was ancient, B or C rated programs that were of little interests to us. Something as simple as having various American cities local news programs would’ve been refreshing for 30 minutes each day. I’m from southeast Oregon in the high desert so something from a medium size city like Medford, OR would’ve been great. Most kids my age love things from our home towns or regions, it would’ve drawn a lot more viewers. My second time in Germany was at Baumholder in 2002-07 and in my free time I coordinated WWII living history events I hosted for our volunteer group where we owned and wore our own WWII uniforms and used the Museum Sherman tank and Halftrack, I used Stars and Stripes for free advertising for the 5 events I did, we had around 13 volunteers all who were Active Duty Soldiers from E-3 to E-9 and they were amazing. If you’re curious, the stories are still on their website, do a search for “WWII Baumholder history” and a couple will pop up. In 2004 we took the tank and Halftrack to Bastogne, Belgium and drove in their annual celebration of the battle and froze our nuts off like our WWII counterparts. What we didn’t expect was how the Belgians treated us like rock stars when they found out we were actual American Soldiers! After the night parade convoy a few of the men went downtown to the bars and I warned them about the Belgian Trappist beer and only have 2 of them or you’ll regret it, one got lucky with a Belgian lady and 3 were hammered the following morning when we had to do cold weather starting procedures, I took some pics of them, you could tell they wanted to be anywhere but sitting inside a frozen Sherman tank, lol. We enjoyed talking with the real Veterans that came to Bastogne each year, i learned a lot of factual history about the battle from them. I spent 6 years in the 2/502nd INF Regt so my interest was the section of the perimeter my battalion held during the war which was a great honor to see and talk with Vets who were in my Battalion. I also met with the Band of Brothers Veterans 3 times when they came to visit units in Germany, they’d always ask for us to come so it was nice discussing sniper stories with Shifty Powers, we just talked about the funny things though. Shifty loved being around other Grunts again and we treated him like he was still in uniform since we know what it’s like since we just came back from Iraq the first time we met with him. So all in all, I’ve led an interesting life while in the Army but I’ve never met anyone that liked Gasthaus, lol and I always ask when I talk with them, we usually bust out laughing and recall the weird guests they’d have on there that made us say “what in the hell am I watching?” Lol. SFC DeVos, Kevin M.

Yeah, because it didn't exist anymore when that thing happened

No, reunification hasn't finished to this day. Formally it has, but de facto, West and East Germany are still heavily divided when it comes to: politics, socioeconomic factors, infrastructure and culture. And no one in power has really been trying to do something about that. A good example for this is the nazi problem is Eastern Germany that already became evident in the early 90s and has't been tackled until today. On the contrary, nazis are so popular in Eastern Germany nowadays, that they make up the second largest parliamentary group in all but one East German parliaments. This is absolutely unthinkable in Western Germany but completely normal in the East.

Bamberg? Really? That's pretty far away of the Czech border. When I was there a few years later, they were patrolling the the GDR border.

Interessant. Seit wann ist Bamberg an der CZ-Grenze?

@@MaxMustermann-qy1ge Stolen valor idiot.

I guess both side called the officers "lamettaträger" because of the silver epaulettes

It is clearly visible that this clip is made for American audience - a piece of subtle propaganda. The West German officer with perfect American English and premade statements, and the Eastern officer with a pragmatical, down-to-earth behaviour.

You think so? I thought it was just a quick Note to the others like: im suddenly in a rather nervous Situation and dont quite now what to do. Lets Figuren it out together"

@@hanfpeter2822 Why nervous ? I don't think so ! I am sure there is obviously an ideological message behind this clip. Nothing to do with the one or the other officer. It is made of pre-made effects and intended intentions.

@@henryseidel5469 maybe nervous was the wrong word. To me it just seems like neither knew what to do in that Situation and the west german officer tried toldvthe east german officer just to base his further actions on his Reaktion.

@@hanfpeter2822 But the clip is not made for the one or the other officer but according to the rules of political journalism to generate a certain impact on the viewer. It is not a natural conversation but a programme made according to a pre-made script.

Lol, seriously. I thought he was American, and I'm American.

yetimuc1000 You’re very welcome. This event was one of the most memorable for me as a U.S. Army broadcaster assigned to the American Forces Network-Munich and stationed in your country. I’m very proud to have served in West Germany and I was so happy when The Wall came down.

Did your parents know that you were going to be a moron?