One Cold War Remembered as Another Takes Shape
President John F Kennedy making a speech in 1962.
Photographer: Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Commemorations were held this weekend to mark two defining moments of Germany’s post-World War II history. It was hard not to be struck by parallels with today.
The first was the 75th anniversary of the Berlin airlift, when the Americans and British flew in supplies to break the Soviet blockade of the city in 1948-49. Today also marks 60 years since John F. Kennedy’s “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech at the height of the Cold War.