In March 1948, Soviet authorities in Germany imposed restrictions on freight and personnel moving through the Soviet zone into the Western sector of Berlin. It was the beginning of the 14-month Berlin ...
February 4-11: President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchilll, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta and confirm a plan to divide both Germany and the city of Berlin ...
The occupation of ravaged Berlin by the triumphant Americans, British and Russians in the summer of 1945 inscribed a coda to World War II in Europe, but it was also the first skirmish in the Cold War ...
WIESBADEN, Germany -- For those who lived through the massive humanitarian effort to deliver life-saving supplies to the citizens of Berlin in 1948 and 1949, remembering is the easy part. But ensuring ...
BERLIN (Reuters) - Sixty years after Allied planes delivered millions of tons of supplies to feed Berliners during the Soviets' blockade, a new exhibition traces the story of the pilots, engineers and ...
WIESBADEN, Germany – When millions of Germans living in West Berlin were cut off from the rest of the world by a Soviet Union blockade in 1948 it kicked off the Berlin Airlift - the largest ...