And despite all of this, people want to live again and celebrate. As was the case at the beginning of the 20th century, carnival is very popular. Even American occupation soldiers and liberated foreign former forced laborers join in the celebrations, as the Murnau municipal police noted in 1950: "The end of the carnival events, in which the population still took an active part, went off without disruption. There were no riots in any of the bars. Even the soldiers of the local American garrison present among the German population and the foreigners behaved without complaint. The immoral behavior in the notorious Andrä restaurants 'Zum obere Weißen' at Hauptstraße 198 and in the Hofner restaurant at Viehmarktplatz 176 was stopped by the local occupation authorities as a result of the installation of two 'off limits'. This also curbed the prostitution in Murnau."