LOL! This story reminds me of when dark forces were trying to recruit me to drive bus loads of US military wives from Germany to Poland to buy Polish pottery. Fortunately my dog had a hangnail and needed attention, but I remember explaining to them (the wives) that the hookers...I mean, women standing out by the road on the Polish-German border were out there because their husbands were off to war and it was tradition that they stand out there waiting for them to return! Fun times!
I’m guessing that was AFTER the Berlin Wall fell and East Germany opened its borders. During the 70’s and 80’s there was a Czech pottery center that American dependent wives could get visa’s to visit.