Editing Fulda (section)

===20th century===
From 1938 to 1943, Fulda was the location of a Nazi [[Forced labour under German rule during World War II|forced labour]] camp for [[Romani people]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tenhumbergreinhard.de/1933-1945-lager-1/1933-1945-lager-f/fulda.html|title=Fulda|access-date=30 October 2021|language=de}}</ref>

Fulda lends its name to the [[Fulda Gap]], a traditional east–west invasion route used by Napoleon I and others. During the [[Cold War]], it was presumed to be an invasion route for any conventional war between [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)|NATO]] and [[Soviet Armed Forces|Soviet forces]]. Downs Barracks in Fulda was the headquarters of the American [[14th Armored Cavalry Regiment]], later replaced by the [[11th Armored Cavalry Regiment]]. The cavalry had as many as 3,000 soldiers from the end of [[World War II]] until 1993. Not all those soldiers were in Fulda proper, but scattered over observation posts and in the cities of [[Bad Kissingen]] and [[Bad Hersfeld]]. The strategic importance of this region, along the border between East and West Germany, led to a large [[United States Army|United States]] and Soviet military presence.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Army|editor1-first=Jerold E.|editor1-last=Brown|year=2001 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|location=Westport, CT|isbn=9780313293221|pages=209–10|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ygqNt3ra-vYC&pg=PA209}}</ref>