This became known as the Berlin blockade. Stalin did not intend to risk war over Berlin, he likely wanted to show that the Soviets also had power in Germany which could match the demonstrations of ...

The hundreds of American and British planes which supplied blockaded Berlin with food and fuel for 320 days will remain on the job, at least temporarily, despite the lifting of the land blockade ...

A love story set during the blockade, The Big Lift (1950) was filmed on location in Berlin and included military personnel playing themselves. While the launch of the blockade had captured ...

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. However, gasoline is ...

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 ...

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 ...

BBC news reporter Patrick Smith explains the atmosphere in Berlin as the Soviet blockade takes hold and the Western powers are forced to keep their sectors of the city supplied by flying in ...

This excellent and exceptionally interesting study of the background and course of the 1948 Berlin blockade is particularly noteworthy in its combination of diplomatic history and the study of public ...