The blockade of Berlin was the first serious ... allies' currency reforms by installing their own new currency in East Berlin just 24 hours before the West mark was to go into circulation.
Firefighters were forced to brave both fire and ice during a grueling battle against a well-involved house fire in East Berlin on Monday morning as frigid temperatures moved into the area.
This became known as the Berlin blockade. Stalin did not intend to risk ... USSR, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, East Germany, Albania.
1,600 outwit Berlin blockade 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 ...
Video above: Ring camera captures fire as house burnsCrews responded to the blaze at a home in the 300 block of South Locust Street in East Berlin Borough at 8:55 a.m.No one was injured ...
The Berlin blockade and subsequent airlift proved to ... of two currencies in western Berlin -- the west mark and the east mark, which have circulated simultaneously since the introduction of ...