Presidential Candidate Barack Obama to visit Tempe
Probably influenced by pressure from the Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit prevented Barack Obama´s speech in Tempelhof, a visit by the United States Presidential Candidate to the historic site is still on the agenda. The extensive discussions in preparation for his visit have served to demonstrate that the future of Tempelhof is still an internationally controversial subject and that the Airport is a monument of historic importance...
Our city needs your help and solidarity.
To All Friends of the City of Berlin, Aviators and to whom it may concern: Our city needs your help and solidarity. 60 years after the end of the Berlin Airlift, a group of communists and socialists are trying to achieve what they did not accomplish back in 1948-1949: the closure of Berlin’s airport, Tempelhof...
Description of the situation of the Berlin airport
Description of the situation of the Berlin airports and resulting importance of the Tempelhof airport - 1. Location The Tempelhof airport is conveniently placed as regards transportation services. The integration in an efficient road and rail traffic net in the middle of the main growing business center and capital of the Federal Republic of Germany ensures an unsurpassable accessibility...
World heritage Tempelhof
In the current discussion around the Tempelhof airport proponents and opponents apart from the jurisdictional arguments talk about questions such as economy, security or the actual need. Apart from these arguments however there is one that is at least just as important, and to many citizens of Berlin it is obviously more meaningful, than to politians: This argument is called "history" or "historical monument", critics call it "backwardedness" or "nostalgia". The cultural achievement - First airport of the world..
Invitation to Berlin - Dear Senator Obama
Invitation to Berlin on July, 24th - Dear Senator Obama, With this letter we would like to renew the Invitation from our public letter on Monday. We believe that the far most best location for a speech in Berlin is Tempelhof Airport. This is the unique location where the friendship between Germany and the US was founded with the Berlin Airlift in 1948/49. It is also the Symbol of Freedom of Berlin, Germany and Europe...
Spectacle in Berlin
Barack Obama is a man in a hurry. He had barely quieted the criticism of his using the presidential seal with his name on it as a prop for his speeches before he suggested that he wanted to follow Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton to Berlin to make a speech at the Brandenburg Gate. He got a lot of public reminders that Reagan and Clinton waited until they were sworn in to use the famous gate as backdrop....
Germans grateful for U.S. help
Airlift's good will fades Germans grateful for U.S. help, but want to look ahead BERLIN -- Germans who care about their relations with the United States are in upbeat mood this week, looking both to the past and the future. Today is the 60th anniversary of the start of the Berlin Airlift -- the daring American-led operation to feed some 2 million West Berliners under Soviet blockade...
