Germantown Police HQ

Before the War, Germantown was a town in what used to be the state of Maryland. In Fallout 3, Germantown is a place where the super mutants have established a base of operations from which to launch raids on Big Town. The inhabitants of Germantown wage unceasing war against Big Town, detain the humans captured during raids, and retrieve the cadavers of others for later consumption. In the Big Trouble in Big Town side quest, the player must rescue Red and Shorty, two Big Town residents, from their imprisonment in the Germantown police station. Watch out for mines on the top floor of the Germantown Police station, where you will also find a computer terminal needed to unlock cell doors. There are also a few terminals detailing the final 911 calls before the Great War. These include a fire, a man who breaks into a woman's house and tells the 911 dispatcher that his wife forgot to take her pills, and a man who tells strange stories about his shoes growing wings and other strange things.

Top Floor

 * D.C. Journal of Internal Medicine: Located on the top floor of the Germantown PD in a briefing room to the north in the middle of the building. The book is on the conference table beside the First Aid Box. Tripping over the land mine in front of the table may cause the book to be pushed away from its original position.
 * A holotape with a password (to the computer in the ground floor near Red's cell). The holotape is on a desk with a computer on it, and with a safe on its left side. A mine is on the floor near the desk.

Ground Floor
Behind the locked (average*) door in the office opposite the cells is a treasure trove of three first aid boxes, a combat shotgun, laser rifle, sniper rifle (or other guns) and ammo for each plus random meds. This door can also be opened via a computer terminal (hard*) right in front of the door.
 * Lying, Congressional Style: Located on the ground floor of the Germantown PD, on top of a small desk in a room with three rows of short tables pushed together. The desk is in the southwest corner of the room.
 * Pre-War Book: Located on the ground floor of the Germantown PD, it can be found on a desk near Red's cell.
 * Flying Bananas Cant Talk Note: On the ground floor in a locked cell beside Red's cell.
 * (*)The lock was Hard for me and the terminal was Very Hard. It could possibly be leveled.

Basement

 * Tumblers Today: Located on shelf in the basement to the left of the firing range as you walk in, behind a closed average locked door.
 * Fat Man: Located in the basement in the same room as the Tumblers Today book, near firing range.
 * Nuka-Cola Quantum: Located in the basement inside a small room past the kitchen where you find Shorty. On the ground next to a metal box immediately to your left upon entering.

Bizarre 911 Call Log
The Flying Bananas Cant Talk note may have been written by this person, indicating that he was arrested and wrote this in his cell. This message is also a 911 call record on the 3rd computer on the left in the call center.

"(A)nd that's how you get to llama school" is a reference to a song from the MTV sock-puppet talk show Sifl and Olly.