Liesbeth Heenk has published 115 Holocaust memoirs and nonfiction narratives in English, and she continues to search for stories that recount the experiences people lived through during that low point ...

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.

On hand to help Berlin celebrate were some of the great Allied figures of blockade days: Britain’s Earl Attlee, former French Premier Robert Schuman, and, most loudly cheered of all, General ...

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 ...

It is republished unedited in its original form. Life in Berlin for Americans these days is still fairly normal despite the blockade. Commissaries continue to be well-stocked.

Berlin, West Germany, Sep. 21, 1948: 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 ...

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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.