Tempelhof Airport - then and now
Once planned as Europe's largest air hub, the former Tempelhof Airport with its monumental buildings and open tarmac has now found a new purpose.
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1890 - Emperor parade on the Tempelhof field
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1909 - Orville Wright flight demonstration
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1923 - Tempelhof Airport
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1926 - Refueling a machine
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1926 - Luft Hansa commences flight operations
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1926 - Luft Hansa commences flight operations
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1927 - Funfair in Tempelhof
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1930 - The entrance area of the airport
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1932 - Maintenance hangar at Tempelhof Airport
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1935 - Tempelhof apron
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1948 - Approaching Tempelhof
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1948 - Airlift time: US truck in front of hall 5
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1949 - End of the blockade
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1951 - Inauguration of the air bridge monument
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1954 - 30th anniversary of the Berlin Airport Company
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1955 - Air France aircraft
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1962 - main entrance
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1966 - 20th anniversary of Pan Am in Berlin
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1968 - Apron: Aircraft handling
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1969 - Night photograph of the airport
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1975 - Tower Tempelhof
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1989 - Luftaufnahme: Tag der offenen Tür
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2006 - Aircraft handling
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2006 - A SN Brussels aircraft waiting for passengers
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2008 - A Dash 8 from Intersky
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Check-in hall in the building of the former Tempelhof Airport.
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The chapel in the former Tempelhof Airport
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The chapel in the former Tempelhof Airport
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2010 - Opening of the Tempelhof Park
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2010 - Kite flying in Tempelhof Park
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2010 - The new Tempelhof Park offers a lot of space for cyclists
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Entry to Tempelhof Park at Tempelhofer Damm
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Picknick with a view in Tempelhofer Park (spring 2011)
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Berlin Festival 2010 at Tempelhof Airport
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2010 - Cross-country skier in the new Tempelhof Park
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Professional and amateur musicians play and sing an urban symphony on May 10, 2013, at Tempelhof Field in Berlin.
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Historian Kurt Schilde speaks to journalists and visitors at a memorial event for the inmates of the former Nazi concentration camp Columbia on the Tempelhofer Feld at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin on July 14, 2013. 80 years ago on July 14, 1933, the German-Jewish writer and pacifist Hiller was the first known prisoner to enter this first Nazi concentration camp.
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