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Posted by Susan Lundy
on Nov 16, 2015
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Gisela Zebroski spoke to us about The Berlin Airlift ~ The greatest humanitarian aid of all time!. Giesla has devoted her life to discovering the truth about her background and herself. Her research turned into two historical novels: THE BARONESS and MEPHISTO WALTZ, covering two generations of her Baltic German family. She documented the events starting with the Russian Revolution that led to their demise. Her childhood during WW II, the painful aftermath following the defeat of the Reich, and her recovery in California are a miracle. Her little known facts and stories paint a novel picture of the wars that changed the world forever. In her memoir – a work in progress – she sums up the events of the last fifty years where a less bloody revolution moved this nation to accept itself. Her journey of self-discovery through reflection, studies and cool reasoning add common sense to her approach to life. Her presentation is riveting, inspiring and beyond memorable…
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In 1948 Stalin blocked all land access routes to the city of Berlin. That left 2 million Berliners and 8,000 occupation forces without sustenance. A forceful breakthrough of the blockade could have ignited WW III. Instead, Harry Truman ordered: “We shall stay! Period.”
On June 25, 1948 General Clay established an airlift: Operation Vittles. Over the following 11 months American and British bombers became transport aircraft that flew 300,000 missions and delivered 2.3 million tons of supplies. This operation deterred Stalin’s invasion of Berlin and Western Europe.
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