There were a number of things that one had to get used to when moving to Germany. One was that many of the women didn’t shave there legs or under arms very often.
Harry Wickart explained it best. He said that many of the urban women were more sophisticated than those working on the farm. Generally those in the small towns and farms didn’t shave very often and after a while looked more like men than women. The urban girl’s who followed the fashion magazines quite often shaved.
It was also not unusual to see young and old men and ladies sunbathing with little or no clothes on. Englischer Garden in Munich is a great example.
As I mentioned earlier the putzfrau that came through the men’s room at the hauptbahnhof in Stuttgart washing the floors. There must have been a dozen guys taking a leak and the only ones embarrassed were the newly arrived American GI’s.
That brings me to the two lane road (now four to six lane road) between Kornwestheim and Ludswigburg. My first week in Germany I was riding in a jeep to the motor pool in Ludwigsburg when all the traffic stopped. We sat and sat with no movement for almost 30 minutes. There was VW bug in front of us with two young gals inside. We were having a cigarette when one of the young gals (probably about 19 or 20 years old got out of the VW, walked 2-3 feet to the side of the road, faced us, pulled up her skirt, dropped her panties, squatted and peed in the grass. Sylvester who was driving forgot what he was doing, took his foot off the brake AND clutch and rammed the VW in front of us!
SP4 Sylvester got an Article 15 for his error and we learned again that the rules were different in Germany in 1961.
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