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West Berlin Mayor Ernst Reuter, 1951

By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 2, 2012
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Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes
Frankfurt, Germany, March, 1951: West Berlin Mayor Ernst Reuter talks to reporters at Rhein-Main Airport upon his return from a 12-day visit to the United States. Reuter, a former German Communist Party official who led the city through the Soviet blockade of 1948-49, said U.S. leaders had assured him of continued aid.

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Stars and Stripes' 1951 story about Mayor Reuter's return to Germany.

Poster in Brcko, Bosnia, 1997

By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 1, 2012
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Ken George ©Stars and Stripes
Brcko, Bosnia and Herzegovina, September, 1997: Staff Sgt. Joseph Young of Vilseck, Germany-based Company D, 2-2 Infantry, stands guard duty in front of a street sign adorned with a poster of fugitive Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic. The hole in the center of Karadzic's forehead was caused by shrapnel from a grenade that exploded two months earlier, but the message may have been less political than one might expect: A person involved in a lovers' triangle reportedly spotted the other two together at a cafe and tossed the grenade from a passing vehicle. No one was injured.

 
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