There is a long history about Camp Reinsehlen. It was an airfield in the Second World War, built by prisoners of war from the Soviet Union and Poland under the most brutal and terrible conditions. At the end of the war it was heavily bombed and destroyed beyond use. It then briefly housed refugees until the British Army turned it into a base camp (it was never a barracks). Unfortunately, the tank exercises destroyed all the heathland, and it was all just a dusty desert. Queen Elizabeth II and the Dalai Lama visited there once. In the 1980s, the tank washing facility was built - for several million marks, including a tank bridge over the B3 federal highway, which has since been demolished. Reunification came in 1990 - but too late to allow the Soltau-Lüneburg agreement to expire. Four years later, however, the time had come - the Soltau-Lüneburg agreement was not renewed and the British Army gave up the property. After that, all the Nissen huts and the loading station in the north had to be renaturalized and demolished. Unfortunately, all the environmental damage, such as leaked engine oil from British vehicles, could not be repaired - so the soil in Camp Reinsehen is still contaminated with chemicals today.