West Germany's Lufthansa airlines landed in West Berlin Sunday for the first time since the end of World War II, picking up Soviet children who had spent their vacation in East Germany and returning them to the Soviet Union.

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The airline, which had not been allowed to fly to Berlin since 1945, needed special permission to land in the long-divided city from the victorious World War II allies - France, Britain, the United States and Soviet Union.After the war, the allies had reserved all rights for air traffic to Berlin for their own airlines.

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