Known as JHQ Rheindahlen, the Cold War relic was built in 1952, once a bustling town that housed up to 12,000 British military personnel until its gates finally closed in 2013.

While British Army numbers have been cut, Germany is going the other way with a large expansion of troops to defend the ... in terms of risk of war for Germany since the Cold War, he told Sky News ...

Germany is preparing for war. The country is actively building a network of bunkers and bomb shelters. This is reported by The Guardian.

He said: “The British Army used to have accommodation, exercise and training areas in Germany when the Army of the Rhine existed. They sold all those when we pulled out.

A British garrison was once home to 12,000 British servicemen and their families, but it's now a sprawling abandoned town where the only residents are deer and squirrels ...