/ by Katherine Yaksich

A former airport built by the Nazis and occupied by the US after WWII. 

Once an East Berliner hijacked a plane and forced it to land here in West Berlin for the sake of freedom. 

Now this former airport houses 1,300 Syrian refugees in hangar 1. 

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A former airport built by the Nazis and occupied by the US after WWII.

Once an East Berliner hijacked a plane and forced it to land here in West Berlin for the sake of freedom.

Now this former airport houses 1,300 Syrian refugees in hangar 1.

(at Berlin Tempelhof Airport)