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How the Berlin Wall Worked

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The Tensions After the Berlin Airlift

Allied forces were supplying West Germany just enough to keep the city going. The airlift brought in more than 200,000 tons of cargo a month at the peak of the airlift. Eventually the Soviet Union was like, oh, all right, well, I guess that didn't work. So let's go ahead and open up the rail traffic and the roads again.

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