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Deborah Cole in Landstuhl

‘We love our Americans’: the German town rocked by Trump’s plan to withdraw US troops

A dodgem ride at a fairground.
Landstuhl is at the heart of the largest American military community in Europe. Photograph: Bernd Hartung/The Guardian

Despite Donald Trump’s frequent bluster, Nadine Firmont said the US president’s move to pull American troops out of Germany had hit her town like a bombshell.

“I have to tell you I was honestly shocked,” said Firmont, 45, who works at a high school in Landstuhl, south-west Germany, the heart of the largest American military community outside the US.

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