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C-54 im Anflug auf Berlin-Tempelhof

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10 October 1920. Birth of USAF pilot Gail Halvorsen (d.16 February 2022). The "Rosinenbomber" or "Onkel Wackelflügel" (Uncle Wiggly Wings). Flying C-47s and C-54s during the Berlin airlift, he dropped sweets attached to parachutes to children to help raise their morale.

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Did you know that during the time of the segregation of East and West Germany and Berlin they had a system installed called the „Berliner Luftbrücke“ (Berlin Sky bridge)?

The point of the Sky Bridge was to deliver supplies to West Berlin via planes coming from the western allies (mainly the USA) after the Soviet Union blocked off the land and water routes to the western part of Berlin. The Planes flying to and from West-Berlin got the Name „Rosinenbomber“ (Raisin Bomber).

Wanna know why? One of the Pilots noticed how Children would gather at the airport gates to watch the Planes land and take off. So, he began to tie little chocolate bars that he got from America to Tissues, effectively creating a little parachute, and threw them out the plane to surprise the kids.

Remember, Germany was in a bad place after the war. Most Families had barely enough money to live, Chocolate during that time was a luxury few could afford.

Obviously this made the rounds in the US Air-Force, and soon enough the entire Air-Force and many US-Americans collected Candy or Bubblegum to support the operation to bring free Candy to German Kids.

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Technology and research on the canal

One of the more spectacular objects that can be seen while travelling on the Landwehrkanal is the Douglas C47 (military version of a DC3) mounted outside the Technik Museum. Together with the single blade of a wind turbine, it gives a taste of the exhibits housed on what had been the station for trains to Anhalt, the Anhalter Bahnhof. The aircraft is one of the many “Rosinenbomber” (raisin��

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J21▪️ Grabenhöfchen - Sennhütte

28,5 km [476,6]▫️+850 m [+10 665]▫️20 °C

La dernière vraiment grosse étape de notre périple avec au programme l'ascension du Wasserkruppe (950 m), le plus haut sommet de la Rhön, surmonté d’une station radar qui fut notamment utilisée pendant la guerre froide pour guider les «Rosinenbombers», les bombardiers américains qui ravitaillaient Berlin-Ouest. D’ici, exceptionnel panorama sur toute la Rhön, quoique des nuages bas brouillent un peu la vue. Descente dans la vallée pour attaquer de l’autre côté un deuxième sommet, le Heidelstein (925 m), surmonté lui d’une impressionnante antenne de 218 m. Quelques détails ici me font penser qu’on est à la frontière avec l’ex-RDA mais je n’est pas pu le vérifier. Il semble difficile de trouver une carte précise de l’ex-frontière en ligne. Envie d’oublier ? Puis enfin, un long chemin sur le plateau au milieu des bois, des prairies et des tourbières. Comme c’est samedi et que certaines parties du ciel sont bleues, on croise de nombreux promeneurs, ce qui nous change un peu de nos chemins solitaires.

Nous arrivons enfin à notre charmante Berggasthof (753 m) pour notre première nuit en Bavière ! Ça y est on y est ! Et détail qui ne trompe pas, au dîner, il y avait un gros bretzel (mais pas que ça). On attend impatiemment de voir notre première Lederhose (culotte de peau) !

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"Rosinenbomber" und mehr am Wochenende in Klausheide

"#Rosinenbomber" und mehr am Wochenende in #Nordhorn-Klausheide

Seltener Besuch steuert morgen Mittag  den Flugplatz Nordhorn-Lingen an. Der bekannte Hobbypilot Michael Manousakis will seine historische Douglas DC-3 in Klausheide landen. „Anvisiert ist der Anflug auf Klausheide am Sonnabend in den Mittagsstunden“, teilt Jesco Gravemeier von der Vereinigung Aktiver Piloten mit. Die Maschine mit einer Spannweite von fast 30 Metern darf nicht ohne Weiteres auf…

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Ihr Heuchler! Denn ihr gleicht übertünchten Gräbern, die von außen zwar schön scheinen, innen aber voll von Totengebeinen und aller Unreinigkeit sind. Matthäus 23,27

Der Berliner Flughafen Tempelhof wurde 2008 geschlossen. Vormals von den Nazis als größter Flughafen Europas geplant, in monumentalen Ausmaßen bis zum Kriegsbeginn errichtet, rettete er wenige Jahre später den Berlinern das Leben. Denn während der Berlin-Blockade (24.06.1948 bis 12.05.1949) sicherten die dort landenden so genannten »Rosinenbomber« die Versorgung der Stadt. Die Amerikaner als neue Machthaber fragten sich jedoch: Was tun mit der fast fünf Meter hohen Reichsadler-Statue über dem Flughafen-Hauptgebäude – dem über neun Tonnen schweren Vogel, der noch immer die Weltkugel umkrallt hielt? Die Amis mit ihrem Pragmatismus fanden eine zufriedenstellende Lösung. Der stolz blickende Vogelkopf wurde kurzerhand abgetrennt und von amerikanischen Soldaten zum »American eagle« umfunktioniert – einfach mit etwas weißer Farbe! Schon war aus dem deutschen Reichsadler das Wappentier der USA geworden: Der Weißkopf-Seeadler. Etwas Tünche hatte den braunen Nazi-Adler entnazifiziert.

Ach, wäre es mit anderen Altlasten auch so einfach. Doch da trägt keine Schönfärberei zur Lösung bei. Ganz im Gegenteil – Licht muss in die Sache. Heuchelei wird von Jesus Christus knallhart entlarvt und als eine veredelte Form der Lüge demaskiert. »Ihr Heuchler! Denn ihr gleicht übertünchten Gräbern, die von außen zwar schön scheinen, innen aber voll von Totengebeinen und aller Unreinigkeit sind.« Was für eine drastische, harte Formulierung!

Nach Außen scheint bei uns alles in Ordnung, aber was verbirgt sich tief im Innern? Wir Men­schen sehen nur, was vor Augen ist, aber Gott sieht auf das Herz (vgl. 1. Sa­mu­el 16,7). Er lädt ein, un­se­re Er­bärm­lich­keit nicht zu ver­ber­gen, son­dern sie ihm zu of­fen­ba­ren und sein Er­bar­men zu er­fah­ren.

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A Day of Two Anniversaries: 75th Berlin Airlift/60th “Ich bin ein Berliner” Speech

On a sunny June evening, the John-F.-Kennedy-Platz in front of Berlin’s Schöneberg City Hall set the scene for a celebration of two significant anniversaries in Germany’s post-war history.

The flags of France, the UK and the US were flying in honour of the three Allied powers who occupied Berlin after World War II. Tents with benches underneath were fringed in matching white, red and blue bunting.

And underneath the flags of the Special Olympics World Games Berlin 2023 and of Ukraine, a stage was set up with musical instruments, an antique carved wooden podium, and a VIP area in front that seated about 180 special guests.

The massive steps of the City Hall were at first deserted except for a blue, white and red flower arrangement underneath two tarnished memorial plaques. Above it, the balcony.

Photograph: Scene in front of the Schöneberg City Hall, June 24, 2023. Photo: Edith Haimberger. Public domain.

After 5 p.m., guests trickled into the VIP area to be served water and Bouvet sparkling wine. Locals had gathered in greater numbers, standing and sitting in the square. A small wedding party drifted by from the registry office at the far side of the City Hall. And the US Air Forces in Europe Jazz-Band from Ramstein began playing jazz and swing music.

🎶 The Stars and Stripes Forever 🎶

🎶 A Tisket A Tasket 🎶

🎶 Straighten Up and Fly Right 🎶

🎶 Sing, Sing, Sing 🎶

In the VIP section, former and current city officials, as well as members of Germany’s Bundestag, took their seats.

Berlin’s current mayor Kai Wegner (CDU) was joined by predecessors Franziska Giffey (SPD; she is also Wegner’s governing coalition partner), Michael Müller (SPD), and Eberhard Diepgen (CDU).

Diplomats from Austria, France, Ukraine, the UK, and the US joined them.

Jörn Oltmann, district mayor of Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, greeted everyone in his opening speech. He paid tribute to the 87 people who died in the Berlin Airlift that began 75 years ago, delivering supplies to the half of the city that had just been cut off by the Soviet government’s land blockade.

The Berliners in the audience applauded warmly when Oltmann mentioned Gail Halvorsen. In the Airlift, Halvorsen was the US Air Force colonel who pioneered the ‘Rosinenbomber’ drops of chocolate, gum, and other candy for Berlin’s children.

It’s also the 60th anniversary of the “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech that John F. Kennedy held at the City Hall.

Oltmann said of the President, “You are still a Berliner in the hearts of the people of our city.”

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. - John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address (1961)

Mayor Kai Wegner took the stage next. [Two or three people booed. So perhaps he was being ironical when he said “Vielen Dank für die freundliche Begrüßung” (’Thank you very much for the friendly welcome.’).]

Wegner himself is too young to have been an eyewitness. Yet his father joined the almost 500,000 people who gathered before the City Hall to hear President John F. Kennedy on June 26, 1963. It was a troubled time, but Kennedy’s words inspired.

“Mein Vater verließ diesen Platz voller Hoffnung.” (’My father left this [City Hall] square full of hope.’)

Wegner’s conclusion: “feiern wir jeden Tag die Freiheit in unserer Stadt” (’Let us celebrate the freedom in our city every day.’)

Photograph: U.S. Ambassador Amy Gutmann speaking at the Schöneberg City Hall, June 24, 2023. (CC BY-SA 4.0)

US Ambassador to Germany Amy Gutmann signed the guest book of Tempelhof-Schöneberg. She received a small sculpture from district mayor Jörn Oltmann, as the US Air Forces in Europe Jazz-Band from Ramstein played another song.

In her speech, Ambassador Gutmann recalled the nerve-wracking, high stakes of the Cold War era with its bristling arsenals of nuclear weapons.

Like the other politicians on the stage, she seemed to be putting herself in the shoes of Kennedy and imagining what it was like to navigate the era as a statesman. Certainly Kennedy gracefully managed to conduct himself as a “global citizen,” in her phrase.

Thanking Berliners for “opening their homes and their hearts to victims of war.” she was likely referring to over 200,000 Ukrainian refugees passing through the city since early 2022.

Referring again to the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, she said that today: “’Wir sind Ukrainer.’” (’We are Ukrainians.’)

Caroline Kennedy, the sister of John F. Kennedy who is serving as US Ambassador to Australia, spoke in a pre-recorded video message. She translated the “Ich bin ein Berliner” message for the present day to “Slava Ukraini.”

Finally Timothy Shriver, chairman of the Special Olympics and nephew of Caroline Kennedy, took the stage.

Lightening the mood and radiating charm to which the crowd responded enthusiastically, he reminisced about his experiences at the time when his uncle Kennedy visited West Berlin.

His mother Eunice had organized a “Camp Shriver” back in the United States, inviting children with intellectual disabilities. Three-year-old Timothy was playing amongst them; his only responsibility was ‘to have fun.’

But Shriver noted that while the Berlin Wall divided sibling from sibling, children from parent, etc., families were separated for more than one reason in the 1960s.

Children with intellectual disabilities might be secluded  from the family home, and from their communities, behind the walls of institutions.

The Kennedy family’s own experiences with institutionalization inspired Eunice to organize the Special Olympics.

In the meantime, the Berlin Wall has fallen. “The world can change.” But people with disabilities still face barriers when they participate in schools and in the workplace.

Photograph: Scene in front of the Schöneberg City Hall, June 24, 2023. Trees belonging to the Rudolph-Wilde-Park. Photo: Edith Haimberger. Public domain.

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Recollections of then-mayor of West Berlin, Willy Brandt (d. 1992), after President Kennedy’s speech

“In der Geschichte Berlins war solch ehrlicher Jubel noch keinem Gast zuteil geworden.”

“Den Augenblick vor der Kundgebung, da er lachend in meinem Amtszimmer die berühmten vier Worte -- ‘Ich bin ein Berliner!’ -- einübte, werde ich nie vergessen.”

“Den Dokumentarfilm über seinen Berlin-Besuch hat er sich wiederholt vorführen lassen; so erzählte es mir seine Witwe am Abend nach der Beerdigung.”

(Willy Brandt. Erinnerungen. Berlin: Ullstein, 2014)

(’In the history of Berlin, such honest rejoicing had not been shown to any other guest.’ ... ‘The moment before the speech, in which he laughingly rehearsed the famous four words ‘I am a Berliner!’ in my mayor’s office, I will never forget.’ ... ‘He asked several times to be shown the documentary film about his Berlin visit; that is what I was told by his widow on the evening after the burial.’)

Photograph of John F. Kennedy at the Schöneberg City Hall on June 26, 1963, by Cecil Stoughton. Credit: White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston

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Fühl die Liebe

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Rosinenbomber in Schönhagen

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70 Jahre Luftbrücke . . #berlin #luftbrücke #airlift #rosinenbomber #flughafen #airport #nofilter #history #aircraft (hier: Flughafen Berlin Tempelhof) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxXkSg6BGNJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=n19ldx58943z

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Stationary Trains

When travelling along the Landwehrkanal, we passed the Technikmuseum and its figurehead DC-47B Rosinenbomber. Once off the boat, we explored the whole museum. I say the whole museum, like many technology museums, it is packed to the rafters with interesting things, and we did leave some of them for the next visit. It is located on the grounds of the former Anhalter Freight Terminal. At the…

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Berlin 1988 Flughafen Tempelhof Rosinenbomber Tag der offenen Tür by Andreas Riebling Via Flickr: Revue AC3 Revuenon 28-70mm Revue TRG100