Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum

Eye of the Storm
AirBridge to Berlin
Road to Confrontation
Who's Who During Big 4
Political Activity Resumes
Who's Who in New Berlin Governments
Background on Conflict with USSR
Eye of the Storm
Marshall Plan
The Airlift Begins
Pilots
Chocolate Flier
Grateful Berliners
Lighter Side (Cartoons)
"Operation Vittles" Gets Organized
Winter Campaign
Blockade Lifted
Aftermath 1949 -- 1959
Photo Collection
 

Eye of the Storm
Chapter section from:
Airbridge to Berlin---The Berlin Crisis of 1948, its Origins and Aftermath 
By D.M. Giangreco and Robert E. Griffin
©1988
(Used with permission)

  What happens to Berlin, happens to Germany; what happens to Germany, happens to Europe. -Vyacheslav Molotov

 

US military police at Potsdamer Platz where the US, British and Soviet sectors meet. The square was often the scene of confrontations between Communists and supporters of Western democracy.

US military police at Potsdamer Platz where the US, British and Soviet sectors meet. The square was often the scene of confrontations between Communists and supporters of Western democracy.

 

 
 

 

 

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