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Elite Dolls, Berlin Airlift -
Celebrating The 50th Anniversary
Russian dictator
Joseph Stalin chose the night of June 23, 1948 to make good his threat to
cut overland supply lines to West Berlin. He wanted to vent his
frustration at refusal by the western allied powers to accept East Berlin
as the capital of a communist puppet regime and at introduction of the
Deutsche Mark in West Berlin. For nearly one year to come, the needs of
West Berlin would be supplied by airlift on a scale never seen before.
The U.S. played a
central role in the airlift. Operation Vittles, a round-the-clock airborne
shuttle from U.S. airbases outside Frankfurt at Rhein, Main and nearby
Weisbade, Germany, supplied food, fuel and occasionally candy to the
beleaguered city and its children. Memories of the recent World War gave
way to a new, human partnership as the months wore on and it became
apparent the inconceivable would work.
This collection of
dolls (Lilli and her brother Kalle which is on a separate listing) is
dedicated to those who were there and those who served.
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