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Urbane Guerrilla · 11-09-2010, 01:08 PM

Just finished "Daring Young Men" last night -- a history of the Berlin Airlift. Attributes the national recoalescence of West Germany in some part to the effort to sustain and save West Berlin. A general of the time said at the end of the Airlift and of nascent West Germany, "This was their Valley Forge."

Something I hadn't heard about was that a certain amount of goods came in quietly, privately, through East Berlin, the Wall after all being more than ten years in the future.

I guess consumer goods stamped "Made In Occupied West Berlin" over those eleven months are collector bait now. Their aggregate tonnage was a bit over eighty-one thousand tons flown out aboard the same aircraft doing the airlift.

11-09-2010, 01:08 PM	#11
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Just finished "Daring Young Men" last night -- a history of the Berlin Airlift. Attributes the national recoalescence of West Germany in some part to the effort to sustain and save West Berlin. A general of the time said at the end of the Airlift and of nascent West Germany, "This was their Valley Forge." Something I hadn't heard about was that a certain amount of goods came in quietly, privately, through East Berlin, the Wall after all being more than ten years in the future. I guess consumer goods stamped "Made In Occupied West Berlin" over those eleven months are collector bait now. Their aggregate tonnage was a bit over eighty-one thousand tons flown out aboard the same aircraft doing the airlift. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.