• Soon after the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961, a stand-off occurred between US and Soviet tanks on either side of Checkpoint Charlie.
  • In 1961, after the Wall was built, tanks faced each other at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin making it a world-famous symbol of German division.
  • Named based on the NATO phonetic alphabet, the Checkpoint Charlie crossing point was world-famous, not in the least because after the Wall was established...
  • Checkpoint Charlie is the only border crossing between West Berlin and East Germany that has remained alive in the non-German collective memory.
  • In the last days of October 1961, American and Soviet tanks took up positions here at the GDR border crossing point Checkpoint Charlie after members of the US...
  • Checkpoint Charlie was the best known Berlin Wall crossing point between East & West Berlin during the Cold War (1961-1989).
  • The collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 following the fall of the East German regime left Checkpoint Charlie redundant , and it was formally closed in 1990.
  • Checkpoint Charlie, bölünmüş Berlin'de Doğu-Batı geçiş noktası Helmstedt ve Dreilinden'den sonra 1961 senesinden 1990 senesine kadar üçüncü ittifak...
  • checkpoint charlie duvar ustundeki tek gecis noktasi degildir. sayisini tam olarak hatirlamamakla beraber 3+ oldugunu soyleyebilirim. zaten charlie ismi de...
  • The Checkpoint Charlie border crossing was a backdrop for the Cold War era James Bond film "Octopussy" (1983), where Roger Moore as James Bond makes...