Merkel-Trump Clashes Push Germany to Watershed Moment With U.S.
- In Berlin, the long German embrace of America is loosening
- Unsolved differences lead to ‘most volatile’ moment since 1949
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There is a corner of Berlin where the golden age of U.S.-German relations lingers on.
Visitors to the Allied Museum on Clayallee -- a boulevard named for General Lucius Clay, commander in chief of U.S. forces in Europe after World War II -- are greeted by a propeller aircraft that flew in supplies to West Berlin during the Soviet blockade of 1948-49, ensuring the city remained an island of western freedom in a sea of communist control.