During the Cold War, the Fulda Gap offered one of the two obvious routes for a hypothetical Soviet tank attack on West Germany from Eastern Europe, especially from East Germany.

The Fulda Gap represented the shortest route (through the cities of either Fulda or Giessen) from the border between East Germany and West Germany to the Rhine River.

For the U.S. Army in Germany in general, and its V (Fifth) Corps in particular, the geographical focus of this concern was known as the Fulda Gap.

Jan 16, 2019 · In the early days of the Cold War, the US Army directed almost all of its training, equipment, and force development toward that potential day when its troops would face Soviet …

Fulda Gap 1968 actually has two stories, each of them set against the backdrop of Operation Danube. In one, the move into Czechoslovakia is part of a larger effort to settle accounts with the West and bring …

Named for the town of Fulda, the Fulda Gap became seen as strategically important during the Cold War of 1947–1991. The Fulda Gap roughly corresponds to the route along which Napoleon chose to …

The Fulda Gap (de|Fulda-Lücke), an area between the Hesse-Thuringian border, the former Inner German border, and Frankfurt am Main, contains two corridors of lowlands through which tanks might have …

This terse and odd phrase, typically delivered via telephone in the early hours of the morning, served over years of the Cold War as an unmistakable notice to U.S. soldiers in Germany that a unit alert had been …

The Fulda Gap refers to a lowland corridor in central Germany, primarily within the state of Hesse, extending from the former Inner German Border near the Thuringian Forest and Hessian highlands …

Creator: edited by Dieter Krüger and Volker Bausch ; translated by David R. Dorondo. This collection examines the role of the Fulda Gap--located at the border between East and West Germany--in Cold …