Word: neukolln
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...result has been severe overcrowding. In desperation, West Berlin officials have commandeered a soccer field in the district of Neukolln and erected tents to accommodate the overflow. They have repeatedly demanded that their Eastern counterparts take steps to stop the traffic. But East Berlin, which earns valuable hard currency from selling airplane tickets to the refugees, contends that it is up to the Western allied forces, which still occupy West Berlin, to apply passport controls on their side. The allies refuse to do that on the grounds that it would amount to recognition of the boundary that divides...
...Neukolln, near the big Tempelhof airfield, workers sat in the damp cellars of the old stone houses with horror in their hearts. Their city had been bombed 58 times before, but never like this (their district was the first to be hit by the R.A.F. two years and a half ago). They did not know what was happening along Unter den Linden; they could not hear, for bombs were raining all around them too. The airport was splashed with red flame. Fire and smoke mushroomed from the big power stations southeast of the field...
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