After too many messages from the UK about wartime airfields under threat from property developers, I just came across a announcement that the municipality of Venlo and several neighbouring German minicipalitiues are going to preserve what is left of Fliegerhorst Venlo. As some of you will know this was the largest German night fighter base, some 12 square km's and with 50 kilometers of run- and taxiways, etc. the site is now actually part of an nature "reserve" and they want to start exploit it as it is already being visited buy so many people. The idea behind it from the municipality POV is that it was also an Allied airfield (!) that helped defeat the Nazi's. There will be monuments erected to comemorate both Allied and German casualties....
See also:
http://www.fliegerhorst-venlo.net/