The Berlin Blockade was lifted 70 years ago, on May 12, 1949. At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Berlin, the German capital ...

This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Europe edition, Sep. 25, 1948. It is republished unedited in its original form. Life in Berlin for Americans these days is still fairly normal ...

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 question ...

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. Ending ...

At Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport one morning last week 10,000 Germans stood silent vigil under a warm spring sun. At last, to the strains of The Star Spangled Banner and God Save the Queen, relatives of ...

On the 75th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift on Sunday, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius hailed the Allies' robust stance against Soviet intimidation, and called for international solidarity ...

WIESBADEN, Germany - Traute Grier's childhood was overshadowed by the bombings of World War II, and as she grew up, the hunger and uncertainty of the Berlin Blockade. Grier was a teenager in 1948 when ...

The end of the Berlin Airlift on September 30, 1949, marked a stunning, early victory in the Cold War. The crisis grew out of a plan by the United States, Britain, and France a year earlier to create ...

The blockade of Berlin was the first serious crisis of the Cold War. By 1948, the Western allies began moving towards consolidating their occupation zones in Western Germany into a single independent ...

Long Island played a key role in a storied chapter at the beginning of the Cold War known as the Berlin Airlift. June 26 marked the 75th anniversary of the start of the pivotal campaign during which ...

On January 17, just days before the announcement that the German government would once again send battle tanks to wage war against Russia, the Berlin-Karlshorst Museum commemorated the World War II ...