Policeman on Patrol

Some of Schafer's memories are written in letter form to me, and since I don't want to mess with his wording, I have left them in his own words. Rittmeister.

I had a funny memory today about a bunch of us running into some trouble with a policeman. We are all so piss drunk and causing a very large hassle outside of a bar or something like that and it is late at night.  A policeman comes up to us (it is cold we are all wearing overcoats) and he wants to take us to like a drunk tank or something.

I yell at the guy "you should be doing something useful at the front instead of hassling us soldiers!!!" He gets this real nasty attitude towards us and I step forward and say, "Let me kill him!!!" and you (Manfred) put your arm out to hold me back. Well anyways you (Manfred) ask for his name and he gets all high and mighty about being a police man and asks you (Manfred) your name.

What you (Manfred) do is classic....you tell him your name as you pull back your collar exposing your PLM and telling him that Kaiser Wilhelm would be very disappointed if any of his PLMs ended up in jail. The guy appologises and takes us back to the base. =)