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.

The Russians were clearly eager to end the Berlin blockade. The fact that the bold, persistent Berlin airlift—and Berliners’ dogged courage—had brought them to this point was a notable cold ...

Tension had characterized the Western Allies and Soviet relationship in Berlin almost from the Second World War's end, and when the Russians took decisive moves to drive the Allies out in June ...

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 ...

The struggle to build support for humanitarian aid comes as May marks the 75th anniversary of the end of the Berlin Blockade, a triumph for the West and one of the defining moments of the Cold War.

PARIS, Oct. 21, 1948 (UP) - The three western powers, who have decided to withdraw their condemnation of Russia as a threat to peace if the Berlin blockade is lifted, accepted a small-nation ...

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 ...

Thus ends the diary of Lasar Mojshes on November 30, 1941. A month later he died of starvation at the age of 59. His death certificate, reproduced in the museum booklet, was issued on December 30 ...

Prelude to a Blockade Although Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchil and Joseph Stalin had agreed at the February 1945 Yalta conference to divide both Germany and Berlin into zones administered by ...