I was stationed in Germany 3 times and also have found memories of the Christmas Market in Nuremburg!
As an aside: I had a cousin who was station in Germany back in the day and he, basically, said his job was to "cut farmers checks," when we tear up their fences and fields on tank maneuvers. He said some encouraged/hoped, they would do it for them due to commodity prices at the time actually the checks were better. Haha. I also recall a German friend, when drunk, detailing me a "scam" about fuel and pipelines and NATO (even to civilian airports) and that "the Greeks and Italians have no security protocols." and, shaking his head, they are our allies but "we don't share important stuff with them."