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In March 55, Jever was not a very large town so organized vice was not a problem generally.   However, there was one place, the St Annentor - better known as the TK, that was out of bounds to us.   Nobody questioned the reason it was out of bounds, probably because people are prepared to believe the worst and took it to be a brothel.   Not being one to take things at their face value I ventured in there on a hot Sunday afternoon and got talking to the barmaid over a couple of biers.   She was in her 40's and assured me that there would be no profit in running a brothel in a town the size of Jever.   She told me she knew this from experience as when the war started her job in 'customer relations' staff with the typewriter factory became redundant so she and the other two girls who worked with her carried on doing the same job by opening a brothel for the German navy in Wilhelmshaven.   The real reason for putting the TK out of bounds was that the MO didn't think the toilets were clean enough.   My experience was that they were equal to or better than any other place in Jever and certainly ten times better than the Cafehaus Rahrdum just a mile up the road from camp.   There was also the advantage that the TK had a condom machine that sold a packet of 3 lubricated for just one Deutschmark - a lot cheaper than the barber's on camp!   It is interesting to note that when Powell-Sheddon's tour was up the new CO said the TK was OK.   (Thanks to Dick Endecott)
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