Photos of the Herzo Base exhibition

Photos of the opening  of the exhibition on July 7, 2007 

In the year 1934 a hill in the north of the small Franconian town of Herzogenaurach was chosen for the construction of a “civil emergency landing ground”. Yet, it soon became obvious, that military facilities for the build-up of the preliminary top secret German air forces came into existence. After the breakdown of the NS dictatorship, the American Forces took over the military base and transformed it into one of the most important reconaissance stations in Europe. Due to the global winds of change, the deployment of ground troops with atomic carrier systems was considered necessary. This chapter of the town history of Herzogenaurach came to an end with the withdrawal of the last American artillery brigade in the year 1992.
 
A catalogue of the exhibition with plans and many interesting illustrations shows the history of an area, which has been isolated from the population for decades and which only rarely permitted insights into the plans of the armed forces strategists. (Euro 5)
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