Post-Korea US troop levels in Germany held near 260,000 for decades

Evidence

By the end of 1951, there were 176,000 U.S. troops in Germany, and there was almost no decline with the end of the Korean War. By 1955, Germany hosted more than 260,000 U.S. troops. Hundreds of thousands of wives and children followed. They would remain stationed for almost four decades across West Germany’s south, where military planners thought a Soviet invasion was most likely. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 123

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• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 123