In January 1919, after the armistice, he took his wife to the ancient fortress at Ehrenbreitstein, on the Rhein and Mosel Rivers. He had seen the bastion as a boy and wanted to see it flying an American flag. When he saw none, he was outraged to be told that the local American commander did not want to upset the Germans. Roosevelt took up the matter with General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Force, who ordered the Stars and Stripes hoisted “within the hour.”
Source:
Beschloss, Michael R. “Unconditional Surrender.” The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman, and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2007. 11. Print.
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