[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I still recall a coupla Polizei mit 9mm walking briskly into our battalion HQ, politely looking for a major who'd ignored a mailed photo ticket for speeding.

Of course it was all an oversight and he would be mailing them a check sofort. I was battalion S-2 clerk and had a .45 in my desk draw. I was also the first person you saw on entering battalion HQ. The very first thing a GI in Germany learned was not to give the Polizei any Scheiss. In the day, European police in general were a lot less inclined to take any than the cops in the World.

[ketelone]

Indeed. The German polizei can pull some pretty rough stuff off.

Was in Germany once, with some drunk and very disorderly candians, who thought it would be funny to call some uniformed cops “Nazis”. They pulled a number on the boys. Beat em to a pulp, and then tossed em in Jail like no other.

[lepton]

The very first thing a GI in Germany learned was not to give the Polizei any Scheiss.

I recall it not being uncommon to see them wandering around with Machine Pistols. ...I even got to watch the police take blood from an uncooperative drunk driver...through his nose, with a steel collection bowl, after bouncing his face off the police car.