Story reminds me of another tale.
Meeting in early eighties, with a us multinational at the Berlin office. One of the guys there " langsdale " was a approaching the big gold clock moment so the German team invited him out for a few beers to celebrate.
Over dinner youngest German said to langsdale.... Have you been to Berlin often? Langsdale replied yes many times in a previous position, but never stopped before.
Young Wolfgang then asked why, who did you work for he replied " the royal air force, I was a bomb aimer"
It went quite then and we got our coats. At break fast the next day one of the older Germans volunteered they might have meet in the past, as he was a German night fighter pilot. Small world, the next nights beers where much more fun