Million Dollar Hangover: Victory Celebration at Berchtesgaden, Hitler Eagles Nest- Natl. WWII Mus.

[Chainfire]

2. there is a really funny story about Captain Nixon, (photo above)

The man had a reputation as being a great and fearless officer, but was also a heavy drinker. He was late arriving at his duty station after one of these parties, so his friend went looking for him. He found him still in bed dreadfully hung over, and refusing to get up. So the other soldier grabs the water picture sitting beside the bed and with Nixon screaming no, the guy dumped it on his head. It was the vessel that Nixon had been relieving himself in all night. The Party went on for days. (I wonder if this photo was taken just before he was dunked) Perhaps the day before or after.

The stories of the drunken party referenced are momentous! These were the guys who had outlived the war, and they had some catching up and some forgetting to do. There was a lot of steam to let off.

These guys had also taken over some of the limousines owned by high ranking Nazi officials in the area and like all kids they liked joyriding in the cars through the mountains. When the high command found out about the cars, of course the high ranking officers wanted them for their own use. It really hacked off the guys that had "captured" the cars, so what they decided to do, probably in a continued drunken state, was to make sure that the cars were safe for the high ranking officers to ride in, so they shot them full of holes to make sure that they were bullet proof, and drove them off of cliffs to test their durability.

Boys will be boys.