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 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 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 ...

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, ...

In 1908, former president Grover Cleveland died in Princeton, N.J., at the age of 71.. In 1948, Soviet forces blockaded the western zones of Berlin, setting the stage for the Berlin airlift to ...

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 ...

I n a conference room in Berlin, around the corner from Potsdamer Platz, a German journalist called Peter Brinkmann is telling me how he helped bring down the Berlin Wall.It’s a story I’ve ...