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Despite protest from the right, 'Hitler's airport' to close down
By Assaf Uni, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Adolf Hitler, Nazis, Berlin 

BERLIN - Despite protests from right-wing activists, Berlin's Tempelhof airport, which was built by the Nazis in 1939, will shut down after residents voted it closed in a recent referendum.

The airport, which was one of Adolf Hitler's regime's greatest architectural feats and is still one of the largest buildings in all of Europe, was closed down for economic and enviromental reasons.

Many Germans protested the shutting down of the airport due to the historical part it played in the 1948 Berlin airlift. It was here, at Tempelhof airport, where Allied forces planes succeeded in bypassing the Soviet blockade of West Berlin by landing planes filled with food and other supplies.
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Rightist groups hung banners stating "Tempelhof saved us, now we must save it," but in the end it was the left who won the battle after convincing Berliners that the environmental damage and economic costs of having an airport in the heart of the city were to much to bear.

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