After enjoying himself immensely while achieving 121 nighttime air victories, Schnaufer was captured by his British enemies and imprisoned. He laughed this off, told his captors that he wanted to leave now because he felt like taking over his family's wine business and making some wine, so they let him go. "Goodbye, Heinz-Wolfgang," they called after him, everybody's favorite prisoner because of his joyous demeanor, "send us a case or two at Christmas!"