Item BERLIN AIRLIFT 33 - Interviews with German journalist Jurgen Graf, [1997-1998]

Transcripts of two interviews with Jurgen Graf, one is noted as 'inaudible on tape', hence transcript is incomplete, the other noted as being interpreted. Graf, a reporter and former German soldier was initially employed by the Soviet controlled German Broadcasting Corporation in Berlin, and later by the American funded German radio station in Berlin. Describes conditions in Berlin during the blockade, watching flying boats land at a former Berlin resort lake, the beginnings of his reporting career, attitudes of Berliners to East Germany, role of Berlin's Mayor-Ernst Reuter, the black market and 'no fraternisation' rule. 26pp