However, Dahmer snuck out of the brothel moments later.Īt first, fellow recruits chalked the incident up to Dahmer’s shyness, but what they did not know was that Dahmer was not interested in women.ĭahmer understood this to be an inadmissible vice and initially vented his frustrations in solitary onanism. Two soldiers escorted Dahmer inside, where they introduced him to a lady. One evening, they took Dahmer to Annabella’s House, a well-known brothel in Vogelweh. In January, Dahmer enlisted as a medical specialist at Fort Sam Houston, and six months later, he was deployed to West Germany, where he served as a combat medic.įellow soldiers were astonished by the fact that Dahmer had never kissed a girl and thought they could assist him in losing his virginity. In 1979, following his unsuccessful attempt to enroll at Ohio State University, Jeffrey Dahmer decided to join the U.S.