Youngsters stand on a bomb-damaged building near the Tempelhof Airport as a U.S. cargo plane, part of the Berlin airlift, ...

Abschied was written just before the Nazi takeover. It reads in the breathless, immediate manner it was conceived.

The war was lost. The Reich was rubble. But the French SS still refused to surrender. As Soviet forces overran Berlin, a ...

With large Jewish, Israeli and Palestinian communities, debate about the war is messy, conflicted and shifting. For the ...

Increasing Germany’s pure defence spending to 3.5 per cent of GDP is, analysts agree, as historic and far-reaching moment as ...

The blockade further alienated regions of free Germany from supporting the Soviets and hastened the formation of an anti-Soviet coalition that became the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Like the ...

Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander returned to Israel this evening after being released by Hamas. The 21-year-old, who was believed to be the last living American hostage in Gaza, was serving ...

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.

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The Berlin Airlift was prompted by the Soviet's Berlin Blockade, one of the first international crises of the Cold War.