![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Berlin Airlift The Western powers airlift of supplies to Berlin during the Soviet Blockade of Berlin. Operation Plain Fare . The Berlin blockade. Post Second World War. Germany. Soviet Iron Curtain.. Deutschmark. 24 June 1948. airbridge . Rosinenbomber, or 'raisin bombers'), 2 million West Berliners with food, fuel and other supplies. At its height one plane reached West Berlin every 30 seconds. The Airlift officially ended on 30 September 1949, fifteen months after its protracted beginnings in June 1948... Keywords: Berlin blockade; Plain Fare; Iron Curtain; West Berlin Downloads: 12,566 Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Sound of History #2: West Berlin - John Goerzen Episode #2 of the Sound of History podcast. This episode focuses on West Berlin with two historic speeches from that city. The first speech was made 2 years after the Berlin Wall was built, and the second 2 years before the wall came down. These speeches are from John F. Kennedy in 1963 and Ronald Reagan in 1987. This episode also contains a very brief summary of the history of the Berlin Wall and a 1920s recording by Benny Goodman. Keywords: history; West Berlin; Berlin Wall; Kennedy; Reagan; speeches; podcast Downloads: 899 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Half City [Halbstadt] (Germany 1988) - silent - Joachim Polzer One year before the Berlin Wall fell, this silent black&white documentary from 1988 is a profile of West-Berlin: places and people, moods and locations; you eventually see "Checkpoint Charlie" still in function. It's a documentary shot in autumn and winter in all shades of grey, black and white. Keywords: Globians world and culture documentary archive; Globians; German Cinema; documentary; essay; Germany; Berlin; West-Berlin; Berlin (West); Berlin Wall; city profile; Super 8; black&white Downloads: 3,921 Average rating: (1 review) |  |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Berlinshire: Inside the Bunker - Maisie Hitchcock Berlinshire 'Inside the Bunker." Broadcast as two 15-min radio shows on Resonance 104. 4 FM (www.resonancefm.com)17th/18th December 2007: In May 2007, I visited the Story of Berlin, a museum located just off shoppers’ paradise Ku’damm, and the site of a large nuclear bunker. This converted car park and JG Ballard-esque spook chamber is still fully functional, and was one of 11 bunkers built in West Berlin to accommodate a paltry percentage of the population in the event of a nuclear war... Keywords: Nuclear:Bunker:Cold:War:West:Berlin:Story:of:Berlin:Atombunker:Atomkrieg:Berlinshire: Downloads: 253 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Sound of History #2: West Berlin - John Goerzen Episode #2 of the Sound of History podcast. This episode focuses on West Berlin with two historic speeches from that city. The first speech was made 2 years after the Berlin Wall was built, and the second 2 years before the wall came down. These speeches are from John F. Kennedy in 1963 and Ronald Reagan in 1987. This episode also contains a very brief summary of the history of the Berlin Wall and a 1920s recording by Benny Goodman Keywords: history,West Berlin,Berlin Wall,Kennedy,Reagan,speeches Downloads: 557 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Comparison Of Life In East/West Berlin - Universal News Keywords: stock footage; standard 4:3; historic; 1961; East Berlin; West Berlin; Berlin Wall; communist; Germany; Soviet Union; freedom; oppression; dictatorship Downloads: 2,658 Average rating: (0 review) |  |
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