When the blockade ended, there was no need for escape from West Berlin, as it was now fully supplied. It offered political freedom and a better standard of living than the surrounding Soviet-occupied East Berlin and East Germany, so there was no wish to “escape” to those areas. read more
On May 12, 1949, an early crisis of the Cold War comes to an end when the Soviet Union lifts its 11-month blockade against West Berlin. The blockade had been broken by a massive U. read more