Brlin airlift

[gulliver1]

Why did Britain and her Allies go to help the Germans with
with the Berlin air lift to west Berlin in 1948 when we had
ended ww2 only five years before

[peggys-dad]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Blockade

[Jugglering]

This link seems to summarise events quite nicely....

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/teacher/berlin.ht m

[jno]

the war was over, the Nazis had gone, Germany was now on our side (as it still is). Russia meanwhile was becoming the new enemy we had to contend with, having made use of the war to colonise much of eastern Europe. A cold war rather than an armed one, but a confrontation none the less.

[Wozzawasp]

Amongst other things we had a garrison in Berlin, cut off by land from British occupied Germany