i lived in germany for 4 years. where was he stationed? that might help.

McGraw Kaserne, but they traveled extensively, so the picture could have been taken anywhere in West Germany or NATO/neutral Europe.

Is this Zwinger Palace? (Dresden) If so, it's been rebuilt significantly since being bombed, and here's a recent photo: http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/travel/tg/lp/a4/500x500_a41fca034c80ba42ecbbc0beb6acef14.jpg

But it's too hard to tell if it's the same building. The figurines are not on the current Zwinger Palace that I can see.

Doesn't look like a match to me, unless they reframed all of the windows, which I find doubtful. The central part of the facade also looks differently proportioned.

Looks right to me. (All hail the Internets, which can figure out anything.)

looks like you've got a winner :D

*nod* I too would have said New Castle (Neues Schloss) in Stuttgart. Bomed in 1944, rebuilding started in 1957 or 58.

Here's another image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/NeuesSchloss_vm01.jpg

Funny how much it influenced the New Castle in Potsdam.

Do you mean Sanssouci? Friedrich the Great's sommer castle? Because that was my very first thought, but it only has one floor.

No, Nues Palais. Notice the similar proportional arrangement of the front facade, and similar ornamentation, even down to the poses of some of the statues. Potsdam has a dome though, which would probably have collapsed if the building had been bombed.

Which it wasn't, so the dome was never missing, and also notice the slightly different arrangement of the windows at the peak. There's also the wings in J's pic.

So my guess is that the Potsdam palace was modelled on the Stuttgart one. They took out some of the heavier elements and kept a more elegant, smaller structure.