Klarinet Archive - Posting 000087.txt from 2005/09

From: "Zornow, Claudia" <claudia.zornow@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Berlin Airlift
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 11:32:56 -0400

Rien Stein wrote:

> Thank you for your expos=E9 of the Berlin Airlift, Nancy. At that time an=
aunt
> of mine tried to survive in Berlin. She was a convict in Berlin during th=
e
> last part of WWII, and after the war had not enough money to return to
> Rheinland-Westfalen, where she was born.

My mother was 10 years old at the time of the Berlin Airlift. She said
a side effect of the airlift was that the sound of airplanes became a
positive thing instead of something frightening, since now the planes
meant food and heat instead of bombs.

Claudia

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