Three months in, the meat department at the Berlin commissary in West Berlin’s American Sector still offers the same variety as it did before the Berlin Blockade, Berlin, West Germany, Sep. 21 ...

Seventy years ago, in May, 1949, much to the relief of many in the world, the Soviets ended their 327-day blockade of West Berlin, located about 110 miles into Soviet-controlled East Germany.

The Berlin squeezer was used at full pressure in 1948-49 (when it was broken by the airlift), and at half pressure in 1951, after the West proposed West German rearmament. Last week the Kremlin ...

This excellent and exceptionally interesting study of the background and course of the 1948 Berlin blockade is particularly noteworthy in its combination of diplomatic history and the study of public ...

The image is one of a series of 9 shot Sep. 21, 1948 by Stars and Stripes photographer Gerald Waller titled “Berlin Americans live normal life,” to show how Americans were adapting living in ...

Berlin blockade lifted, but planes keep flying. FRANKFURT, May 12, 1949 (UP) -- With 1,583,721 tons and 194,531 flights behind them, the airlift boys kept them flying today.

Events of the Berlin blockade On 24 June 1948 , Stalin cut all land access to Berlin for the Allies, citing ‘technical difficulties'. This became known as the Berlin blockade .

Moscow this week announced that it was willing to lift the Berlin blockade—at a price. Moscow made two conditions: 1) the Big Four Council of Foreign Ministers must meet again to discuss the ...