Leapfrogging a Soviet Blockade

Here’s one of the crazy things that happened in 1948. Shortly after WWII, the German capital of Berlin was divided into four sections, controlled by foreign countries, namely, the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. The city itself was in the east part of the country, which would later become East Germany. When the three anti-Soviet sectors … Continue reading Leapfrogging a Soviet Blockade