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Yes, but it in no way pays the full amount .... Take GITMO... or the German bases. On most of those the US pays relatively little rent and utilities. Google it, plenty of stuff about it.
Maybe Germany shouldn't had declared war on the US... and lost? As for GITMO, research the Spanish-American War. We didn't have to pay them anything. We could have annexed them, like Germany and Spain did other lands before they screwed with the US, and like the US did in Guam, Texas, California, and a few other locations - we paid for and bought Alaska from Russia, the US Virgin Islands from ... wait for it... DENMARK, in 1916, and although we paid $20 million ($568,880,000 today) to Spain for the Philippines, we gave the Philippines back to the people of the Philippines in 1946 via the Treaty of Manila.
Unlike our European cousins, including your lovely Denmark, some of which included the Danish West Indies as discussed above that were part of the Danish Colonial Empire, the US doesn't have a history of colonialism or seizing other lands as if they belonged to us in first place, or Empire building and holding (Aruba, Curaçao, and Saint Maarten are still under the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and their official language is Dutch). There's an old parable regarding rocks being thrown by folks that live in glass houses that comes to mind.