Central airport, these letters are still above the building's closed main entrance. You could think that Berlin Tempelhof is still a place of aviation. The whole front pretends so.
Have you any idea what is going on behind? The airfield became one of Berlin‘s unique parks, because there has nothing changed. The runways, the signs and everything else looks like in any decades before. And the people loves it.
But this will be another post. Please subscribe, that you don't miss it out. Let's go back to the front again. Some information boards for tourists stand around. They tell the long history of this airport, completed with many images. Including the following one from 1962.
Yes, the symbol of the German Empire survived the downfall for seventeen years. Finally this iron bird did nearly the same as his human neighbors. A new colored head led him survived the May 1945 and he observed Berlin‘s uprise in the 1950s. But than in the sixties he became a victim of the technological progress and was replaced by a radar system. The metal body was smelled but the head traveled to America. It was an idea by West Berlin‘s U.S. commanders; A gift to the West Point Academy. The eagle's head rested in West Point's archives for more than two decades, before it traveled back to Berlin. And here it's displayed since 1985.
Since then the G.I.'s nickname Eagle Square for the place infront of Tempelhof airport got a new meaning.
Cheers from Berlin!
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