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Earlier this year, the city of Berlin approved a plan to convert the buildings into an event space and a hub for startups and businesses.

In 2015, during the height of the refugee crisis, the hangars were turned into emergency shelters that initially housed nearly two thousand refugees.

Lawrence Dixon, a former US air traffic controller for the American Air Force, talks about his time stationed at Tempelhof’s military base for nearly four years starting in December 1989.

After the end of WWII, in 1948, Tempelhof's airfield served as the site for the so-called “airlift” of West Berlin.

Tempelhof airport was built by the Nazis in 1936 and intended to become the world’s biggest building and an entryway to Hitler’s world capital “Germania."

The Tempelhof airport in Berlin is a vast, empty space so massive that it’s the size of another country: Monaco, in southern Europe.