There was an ex-Luftwaffe member of the Exmouth RAFA club twenty-five or so years back.
At my previous local we had a German fellow called Walter who had served in the Luftwaffe in WWII. He would join us ex Service types in the corner of the bar on a Friday evening. He insisted that he only came over on a day trip in 1942 and never went back.
'We knew how to whinge but we kept it in the NAAFI bar.'