Columnist Jesse Hathaway would do well to register for summer sessions in History. Stat. Nicking talking points from the middlebrow conservative noise machine is hardly unfamiliar to Mr. Hathaway and his column.
The date is January 28, 1932. Haaretz' correspondent in Berlin, Gershon Savitt, reports from the courthouse. In the defendant's chair is Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi party, who is facing a libel suit filed by his former friend, Walter Stennes.
The city plans to close it and concentrate air traffic at a facility scheduled to open in 2011. A referendum seeks to keep it open. Gabriele Leech-Anspach was a young mother with a toddler when Soviet authorities suddenly imposed a blockade on West Berlin in 1948, cutting off all road, train and boat access and leaving 2.2 million Berliners stranded on an island of the new Cold War.
25 April 2008 By Kerstin Gehmlich / Reuters BERLIN -- At the age of 7, Mercedes Wild waved excitedly at each U.S. plane that circled over her Berlin home and landed at Tempelhof Airport, packed with supplies to feed Berliners during the Soviets' Cold War blockade.
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