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 ...

The sculpture on Platz der Luftbrücke in front of the disused Tempelhof Airport commemorates the effort to supply the West ...

The collective shunning of the AfD party is part of a longstanding attempt to blunt its move into the mainstream.

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 Soviets cut electric power to West Berlin. On June 24, the Soviets halted all land and water access to the city; the blockade had begun. Despite having run a mini-airlift to re-supply the ...

while up to 20,000 people joined a mass rally in Berlin on Sunday afternoon. In Cologne, protesters staged a demonstration on the Rhine, with 350 boats forming a symbolic blockade in front of the city ...