German town fears loss of U.S. Army base - The Washington Post

German town fears loss of U.S. Army base - The Washington Post:

"BAUMHOLDER, Germany — For more than half a century, this garrison town in the rolling hills of southwest Germany has been a small version of America, with Ford Mustangs and pickup trucks from the U.S. Army base next door threading through its medieval streets."

With dozens and dozens of bars crammed into several blocks, with hundreds of prostitutes to "service" the thousands of soldiers in town from war games in the nearby fields ... oh yes, I know the town well. Its surrealistic but accurate environment is at the heart of my novella, Baumholder 1961.

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“If they leave, Baumholder is going to turn into a ghost city,” said Thomas Kiefer, 44, a German tattoo artist who speaks English with a Mississippi drawl and was eating Popeyes chicken at his shop one recent evening.

Confidential magazine once called Baumholder "the Sin City of Europe." It was an under-statement.

Thanks to TS for alerting me to this.