DVIDS - News - 70 years later: Baumholder military, civilian community ties still strong
7 BAUMHOLDER, Germany – Seventy years ago this year, the U.S. Army took over control of the Baumholder Military Community from the French. Since then, as the post ebbed and flowed, so did the city outside the fence line. In a 1945 agreement, the French occupied the post after World War II. The German army built the post and adjacent range as a training base in 1937. At the end of 1951, the Americans took over the post and soon began a large construction program, causing the population of the city of Baumholder to explode like a cannon shell in the nearby training area.
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