Episode 124: Berlin-Brandenburg Airport
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The Berlin Airlift
In the late 40s, the Soviets tried to get all of Berlin. They shut down the highways of the train routes that run through their territory from West Germany into Berlin. The US Air Force begins doing what is known as the Berlin Air Force, Berlin airlift. Billy Brant later becomes the first social democratic chancellor of post war Germany. He's the one who kind of builds the German welfare state. And so the airport ends up being named after him.
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