BERLIN BLOCKADE

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BERLIN BLOCKADE
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Berliners interest

• Berliner's interest in the airlift remained
  constant throughout the many months of the
  Blockade.

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Chocolate

• Halvorsen's bunk becomes a factory for miniature
  parachutes weighted with Lyons chocolate

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Miniature parachutes

• Miniature parachutes can be seen dropping from
  Halvorsen's C-54 as he brings the plane in for a
  landing at Tempelhof.

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Happy Berlin children

• A group of Berlin children try to express their
  appreciation to Lieutenant Gail S. Halversen, the
  orginator of "Operation Little Vittles," for the
  thousands of packages of gum and candy he and his
  friends dropped over Berlin in tiny parachutes.

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Care packages

• Care packages being distributed to Berliners.

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Airlift flour

• A four-year old girl who lives in one of Berlin's
  Western Sectors, totes her family's weekly bread
  ration from a bakery near her home. The bread was
  baked from American flour and is wrapped in a
  Soviet-licensed newspaper which carries a banner
  headline reading "AIRLIFT USELESS."

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Blockade

• Rail and barge traffic begin to stack up as the
  blockage begins in earnest. Before the currency
  reform, black-market activity was common
  throughout Germany.

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Berlin, 1948

• May Day demonstrations in Berlin, 1948. Part of
  the crowd is turning left to the Reichstag
  rendezvous of anti-communists while others
  continue to a Soviet demonstration. This photo
  was taken from the border of the British and
  Soviet Sectors at a point where the Berlin wall
  would later be constructed.

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Soviet

• Soviet troops returning to their sector after a
  ceremony at the Soviet War Memorial, 9 May 1952.
  Nearly a decade later, the Berlin Wall was
  erected roughly half way between where the
  British soldier is standing guard and the
  Brandenburg Gate.

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BERLIN WALL

• Berlin wall shortly after its construction begins
  in 1961.

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Berlin Wall comes down

• Berlin wall comes down in November of 1989.
• Began unifying the country immediately.
• By October of 1990 the 2 nations joined as the
  Federal Republic of Germany.