On 8 May 1945 , Western Allied and German signatories of the German Surrender in Berlin and their entourage landed at Tempelhof airport . At the beginning of May , Weser Flugzeugbau opened a workshop in hangar 7 to repair streetcars . In the following weeks , Berliners raided all unguarded parts of the opened buildings searching for food or anything else useful in bartering in the black market . In accordance with the Yalta agreements , Zentralflughafen Berlin-Tempelhof was turned over to the United States Army 2nd Armored Division on 2 July 1945 by the Soviet Union as part of the American occupation sector of Berlin . This agreement was later formalised by the August 1945 Potsdam Agreement , which formally divided Berlin into four occupation sectors
Yalta agreements
Yalta Conference
Berlin Tempelhof Airport