BERLIN, Aug. 14, 1961 (UPI)--- Sixteen hundred East Germans have squeezed through the Communist blockade since it went into effect; it was revealed here today. A total of 5,300 refugees registered ...

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 ...

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 ...

But of all the mechanisms, the most carefully calibrated is the squeezer known as the Berlin Blockade. It is so sensitive that it can register cold-war pressure by the raising or lowering of a ...

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 ...

Although American naval forces would likely come into play to counter a blockade, America’s most likely immediate response option is strategic airlift of vital supplies. The successful Berlin Airlift ...

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 ...

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 ...