Berlin Germany winter in the Tempelhof Airport which has been turned into a park
People walking and jogging in the snow on the airfield of Tempelhof Airport park, Berlin, Germany, situated in the south-central borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg. The airport ceased operating in 2008 in the process of establishing Schönefeld as the sole commercial airport for Berlin. In the height of the cold war it was the site of the Berlin Airlift. On 20 June 1948 Soviet authorities, claiming technical difficulties, halted all traffic by land and by water into or out of the western-controlled section of Berlin. The only remaining access routes into the city were three 20 mi-wide air corridors across the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany. Faced with the choice of abandoning the city or attempting to supply its inhabitants with the necessities of life by air, the Western Powers chose the latter course, and for the next eleven months sustained the city's 2½ million residents in one of the greatest feats in aviation history.
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Photo credit: © Barry Lewis / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: airfield, airport, berlin, cold, germany, jogging, leisure, snow, tempelhof, winter
