After its closure, the airport famous for its Nazi and cold war history became a green public paradise. When developers smelled blood, Berliners fought back It’s never easy to ask someone to give back ...

The future of the Tempelhof Airport in Berlin has been one of the most hotly contested urban development issues facing that city in decades. Like Philadelphians, Berliners are making a stand to have ...

This week, millions will take to the airways for Christmas travel. As families slog through the mundane reality of contemporary air travel, we might pause to reflect on the ghosts of airports past, ...

Once one of the largest buildings in the world, the terminal at Berlin's former Tempelhof Airport played many roles in history, from symbol of Nazi power to vital link in the Berlin Airlift. Kent was ...

As a U.S. Army Infantry sergeant, I arrived in West Berlin in 1956 on a troop train, but the divided city was open to commercial air travel almost as soon as World War II ended. American Overseas ...

If you only do one thing in Berlin, there is no better place than here to feel the weight of history and the addictive energy of one of the world's most vibrant and libertine cities. There are few ...

BERLIN — Gabriele Leech-Anspach was a young mother with a toddler when Soviet authorities suddenly imposed a blockade on West Berlin in 1948, cutting off all road, train and boat access and leaving ...

BERLIN — Those big planes rattling the sky, dropping candy bars on tiny parachutes to the ground. The boys who saw them knew where to run: that marble-and-stone cathedral to flight, Tempelhof Airport, ...

Berlin has a new public park, and it’s bigger than the Tiergarten, closer in size to Central Park in New York. The opening of the Tempelhof Park on the grounds of the former Tempelhof Airport comes a ...

Tempelhof airport has already been repurposed as a refugee shelter for the thousands arriving in the German capital. Now a proposal to build shelters on the airfield has raised suspicions among local ...

Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, once a symbol of Nazi power, will likely see its last flight this October. Its runways are not big enough for large planes, and Berlin is building a new international ...