![German Embassy on Twitter: "Before the #FalloftheWall, West Germany offered East Germans "Begrüßungsgeld" ("welcome money") to visit. An Easterner received the equivalent of $100 to pay for food or travel. Even after German Embassy on Twitter: "Before the #FalloftheWall, West Germany offered East Germans "Begrüßungsgeld" ("welcome money") to visit. An Easterner received the equivalent of $100 to pay for food or travel. Even after](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIsgOwuWsAAyoTw.jpg:large)
German Embassy on Twitter: "Before the #FalloftheWall, West Germany offered East Germans "Begrüßungsgeld" ("welcome money") to visit. An Easterner received the equivalent of $100 to pay for food or travel. Even after
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The Berlin Blockade 20 June 1948: A new currency, the Deutschmark, introduced in | West berlin, Berlin, 20 june
![Germans watching supply planes at Tempelhof airport during the Berlin Airlift. In response escalating tensions and to the establishment of.a new West German currency, the Soviets cut off all land communications to Germans watching supply planes at Tempelhof airport during the Berlin Airlift. In response escalating tensions and to the establishment of.a new West German currency, the Soviets cut off all land communications to](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2R62W0A/germans-watching-supply-planes-at-tempelhof-airport-during-the-berlin-airlift-in-response-escalating-tensions-and-to-the-establishment-ofa-new-west-german-currency-the-soviets-cut-off-all-land-communications-to-west-berlin-and-stopped-sending-food-there-theallied-response-was-an-eleven-month-campaign-to-supply-w-berlin-with-the-5000-tons-per-day-of-food-and-fuel-it-needed-a-plane-landed-every-three-minutes-day-and-night-and-the-operation-was-so-succesful-that-the-soviets-had-to-back-down-and-reopen-the-roads-railways-and-canals-2R62W0A.jpg)