The Soviets threw everything at them, mortars, flamethrowers, Stalin tanks, but the French SS wouldn’t yield. In the ...

In late June, following the introduction of the deutsche mark, the Soviets severed land and water connections between the non-Soviet zones and Berlin, halting rail and barge traffic in and out of ...

BERLIN, May 26, 1949 (UP) - The Russians yielded to urgent Allied representations today and hauled four Americans and British passenger and mail trains into ... Soviets allow four trains into Berlin.

The end of the Berlin Airlift on September 30, 1949, marked a stunning, early victory in the Cold War. Over 15 months, more than 200,000 planes delivered about 2.3 million tons of supplies to the ...

The new currency, over which the Soviets would have no control, was also to become legal tender in the Western sectors of Berlin. The USSR, which had been invaded twice by Germany, was alarmed at ...

The battle for Berlin had cost the Soviets over 70,000 dead. Many of them had died because of the haste with which the campaign was conducted.

Berlin was split — the Soviets in the eastern area of the city, the Americans, French and British in the West. Although the Soviets would coordinate occupation policy with the Americans, ...

Joachim Rudolph fled East Berlin himself, but wasn't content: He dug a massive tunnel to help free 29 more from the Soviets, including his future wife, a new book reveals.

For 323 days after the Soviets blockaded West Berlin to try to drive the West out — from June 24, 1948, to May 12, 1949 — more than 200,000 American and British flights delivered approximately ...

Just before midnight, the Soviets cut power to West Berlin and then begin a blockade of the city. June 24: All rail, road, and water access from the Western zones to Berlin is halted.