A drive to save Tempelhof Airport, base of the Berlin airlift



 
A drive to save Tempelhof Airport, base of the Berlin airlift


The city plans to close it and concentrate air traffic at a facility scheduled to open in 2011. A referendum seeks to keep it open.



Gabriele Leech-Anspach was a young mother with a toddler when Soviet authorities suddenly imposed a blockade on West Berlin in 1948, cutting off all road, train and boat access and leaving 2.2 million Berliners stranded on an island of the new Cold War.

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News entry number 4434 added on Apr 28, 2008 in the World News category.

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