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Picture No 10219893
Date 1949
Description German Workers Re-erecting a 'Free Passage' Sign, Berlin, 19
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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.
Source The Illustrated London News. 1949. bottom right of page 687.
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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