German Workers Re-erecting a Free Passage Sign, Berlin, 19

Photograph showing German workers re-erecting a Russian and German sign declaring Free Passage on the border between West Berlin and the Soviet Sector at the end of the Berlin Blockade, May 1949. Between April 1948 and May 1949 Josef Stalin, leader of the USSR, imposed a land blockade on supplies from Western Europe to West Berlin. In response the British and American governments organised an enormous airlift to supply food and other essentials to the 2.5 million inhabitants of West Berlin. After a year Stalin conceded defeat and lifted the blockade

Airlift Blockade Conceded Declaring Enormous Erecting Essentials Governments Imposed Inhabitants Lifted Organised Response Sector

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