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February 9, 2012
Berlin_airlift
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Urban gardening takes off at Berlin's fabled airport Tempelhof
Society: 29 Aug 11
It's sunflowers instead of planes and kale instead of kerosene at the German capital's legendary Tempelhof Airport, site of the Berlin Airlift and now home to one of Europe's biggest urban gardens. AFP’s Deborah Cole reports.
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Candy Bomber plane makes crash landing
Society: 20 Jun 10
Seven people were injured on Saturday when a historic plane used in the Berlin Airlift made an emergency landing shortly after taking off for a pleasure tour around the city.
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Berlin Airlift remembered at Tempelhof
National: 12 May 10
Just days after Berlin's Tempelhof Airport was turned into a giant city park, people gathered on Wednesday in the German capital to commemorate the Berlin Airlift.
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Allied Museum angles for space at Tempelhof Airport
National: 11 Dec 09
Berlin’s Allied Museum has unveiled a proposal to move from its remote location in the city's Zehlendorf district to Tempelhof Airport by 2014.
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German media roundup: Kudos for Merkel's 'freedom' speech
Analysis & Opinion: 4 Nov 09
The Local’s German media roundup surveys the overwhelmingly positive response to Chancellor Angela Merkel's historic address to a joint session of the US Congress on Tuesday.
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Taxiing for takeoff at Berlin's Tempelhof
Analysis & Opinion: 21 Oct 09
Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport might be closed to air traffic, but Roger Boyes, correspondent for British daily The Times, believes it could still help the German capital soar.
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Tempelhof to become enormous city park
Society: 31 Aug 09
The airfield of Berlin's historic Tempelhof airport will become the German capital’s largest park by the summer of 2010, city officials announced on Monday.
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Currywurst museum celebrates saucy opening in Berlin
Society: 17 Aug 09
As German as the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin's favourite snack, the curried sausage or "currywurst," now has its own museum, a shrine to the saucy delicacy that has become a national treasure.
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Berlin Festival takes off at Tempelhof Airport
Society: 10 Aug 09
Thousands of music fans descended on Berlin’s iconic Tempelhof Airport over the weekend for the fourth installment of the Berlin Festival, which brought Jarvis Cocker and a not-so-scandalous Peter Doherty.
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Buttering the bread of Berlin's fashion scene
Lifestyle: 29 Jun 09
Exberliner Magazine talks to Karl-Heinz Müller, the man behind this week's Bread & Butter fashion show taking place at Berlin's iconic former airport Tempelhof.
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Berlin thanks airlift pilots 60 years later
National: 12 May 09
The city of Berlin on Tuesday kicked off celebrations to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of the Soviet blockade of West Berlin.
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Merkel thanks Eastern Europe for helping break the Iron Curtain
National: 4 May 09
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday thanked eastern Europeans for helping bring down the Berlin Wall, saying that joyous moment 20 years ago would not have been possible without them.
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Germany remembers 'Kristallnacht' pogrom
National: 9 Nov 08
Chancellor Angela Merkel and Jewish leaders are paying tribute to the victims of the Nazis' Kristallnacht pogrom on the 70th anniversary of the event at a ceremony in Berlin's largest synagogue on Sunday.
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Berliners say farewell to fabled Tempelhof
National: 31 Oct 08
Nostalgic Germans on Thursday night bade a fond farewell to Tempelhof, the fabled hub of the Berlin Airlift, as it closed to make way for a major new airport to serve the reunified capital.
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Berliners rush to ride 'candy bomber' before Tempelhof closes
Society: 13 Oct 08
Germans are flocking to take a last flight in a 1940s-era plane from doomed Tempelhof Airport, the historic hub of the Berlin Airlift which is to close at the end of the month.
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Obama to speak at Berlin's Siegessäule on Thursday
National: 20 Jul 08
Barack Obama will make his Berlin speech in front of the Siegessäule landmark next week, his team has confirmed to the press.
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New US Embassy in Berlin inaugurated at pre-war location
Politics: 4 Jul 08
The US Embassy in Berlin on Friday celebrated a return its original historic city centre location, which was abandoned when Germany declared war on America in 1941.
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Pilots return for 60th Berlin Airlift anniversary
National: 26 Jun 08
US, British and French veterans joined German leaders on Thursday to mark the 60th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift, a colossal operation to rescue the western sector of the city from a Soviet blockade.
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"People want to be reminded of America at its best"
National: 24 Jun 08
On the 60th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift, Steve Kettmann speaks with Andrei Cherny. The author of The Candy Bombers wants Americans to look at current US foreign policy through the prism of the unique humanitarian effort that began June 26, 1948.
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Old pilots due back in Berlin for Airlift anniversary
Society: 23 Jun 08
Germany will play host this week on the 60th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift to octogenarian former pilots who helped save the embattled western part of the city as the Soviets tried to starve it into submission.
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Bush to prod Merkel on Iran ties
National: 11 Jun 08
US President George Bush swept into Germany Tuesday, looking to prod Chancellor Angela Merkel in whirlwind talks to further cut back Berlin’s lucrative ties with Tehran over its suspect nuclear programme, AFP's Olivier Knox reports.
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Berlin’s ILA air show takes off
Science & Technology: 27 May 08
Berlin’s ILA aerospace trade show taxied into position on Tuesday, with a record number of exhibitors and visitors expected to head to the city’s Schönefeld airport this week.
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US Embassy returns to historic Berlin site
National: 19 May 08
The new US Embassy in Berlin will next week open its doors on the same site the mission occupied before World War II, Ambassador William R. Timken said on Monday.
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Vote to save Berlin's Tempelhof fails
National: 28 Apr 08
The days looked numbered for the hub of the postwar Berlin airlift Monday after supporters of the historic German airport lost a last-ditch referendum on saving it from closure in October.
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Berlin divided over closure of historic Tempelhof
National: 25 Apr 08
Berliners this Sunday will head to the polls to have their say on the planned closure of the city’s historic Tempelhof airport. Naomi Kresge looks at the controversy dividing the city.
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Candy Bomber Halvorsen: "People had their doubts about the Airlift"
Lifestyle: 11 Apr 08
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift. Steve Kettmann spoke with the original “Candy Bomber,” US pilot Gail Halvorsen, about his memories of the logistics feat that kept West Berlin free.
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Berlin’s Tempelhof is more than just an airport
Analysis & Opinion: 12 Mar 08
Plans to close historic Tempelhof airport have divided Berlin. But the controversy must not overshadow the 60th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift, argues the director of the city’s Allied Museum Helmut Trotnow.
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Tempelhof Airport’s heritage in jeopardy?
Society: 22 Jan 08
The iconic airport's heritage is in danger, as Berliners attempt to preserve it by getting it on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
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