Germany: Central Airport Tempelhof

This week I got fourteen postcards including four from Germany.

One of them shows the Airlift Monument at the Central Airport Tempelhof in Berlin. The Central Airport Tempelhof was opened in 1923 as one of the first commercial airports in Germany. In 1948 and 1949 it was the centre of the Berlin Airlift during the Berlin Blockade. The airport was closed in 2008.

I bought this card when I visited Berlin last year.

Stamp:
Centenary of  World War I (issued 07-08-2014)
with a special postmark about the centenary of relations between Afghanistan and Germany
In 1915 the Niedermayer-Hentig Expedition, a diplomatic mission, was sent by the Central Powers German and Ottoman Empire to Afghanistan. Its purpose was to encourage Afghanistan to declare full independence from the British Empire, enter World War I on the side of the Central Powers, and attack British India. Although the Russian Empire and the United Kingdom tried to intercept the mission, it reached Kabul in September 1915. The mission failed in its main task of rallying Afghanistan, but a friendship treaty between Afghanistan and the German Empire was signed in January 1916.