Word: tempelhofer
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Marlene Dietrich, still trouping for the troops, had her picture taken with her mother, Frau Josephine von Losch, at Berlin's Tempelhof Airdrome; Dietrich's taste for tailored togs appeared to be hereditary...
...hours and 45 minutes it was all over. Eisenhower, Montgomery and Delattre had landed at Tempelhof, met Zhukov in the Berlin suburb of Köpenick, signed the papers...
...Then suddenly the Russians seemed to be everywhere at once on the south. Cavalrymen from Siberia, Cossacks from the Don raced west behind the armored thrusts, galloped into woods to slash out German gunners-and the Germans touched off fuel to set the woods ablaze. Soon shells fell on Tempelhof airdrome. Berlin was three-quarters encircled...
...them in the dark of night for Bolshevik invaders. Those long range airplanes which were to carry Nazi bigwigs to Japan had their engines turning over again. Goebbels, however, was carrying a vial of poison for use in case Berlin should be suddenly surrounded by Red paratroops. Officials at Tempelhof airdrome hysterically chattered that Russian patrols had appeared, taken a good look around, vanished...
Flak got five R.A.F. Wellingtons over Berlin the night of Nov. 14, three years ago, and a pilot parachuted into the Teltow Canal near Tempelhof Airport. Middle-aged civilian wardens fished him out, escorted him to a police station. The police gave him hot Ersatzkaffee. The prisoner made a face and everyone laughed...