• Hallo Hornet785,

    in deed, the air-bridge (Luftbrücke) was a grand logistic achievement. Hunderts of brave american, british, australian, canadian new-zealandish, and south-african pilots risked their lives to help thousands of people in trouble. In so far Luftbrücke is not only a symbol of peace but of international understanding too. A goodness, which still seens to be unknown respectively forgotten by some people on this (nice) planet...


    Best regards !

    from Pälzer

  • Dear Sylvain,

    in my eyes this is more likely a complete fiddle than a curio. I have grave doubts about anyone getting away with posting a card like that in Stalinist East Berlin (Pankow) in 1949 and have it sent to Hamburg with no questions asked. The thought that the sender pre-empted the provocative communist-turned-capitalist Otto Ludwig Piffl in Billy Wilder’s One Two Three by a dozen years or so is tempting but as unlikely as roasted snowballs ...

    Just my 2 Pfennigs …

    Best wishes from Erding (which served as a central logistic hub during most of the airlift period)!

    Viele Grüße aus Erding!

    Achter Kontich wonen er ook mensen!

  • ...and the - in the truest sense of the word - cool slogan: " roasted snowballs" of our good Erdinger is one we realy have to keep in mind ! :D

    + Gruß !

    vom Pälzer

    Wer um Postgeschichte einen Bogen macht, läuft am Schluss im Kreis