- Checkpoint Charlie is the famous checkpoint on the border of former East and West Berlin, or between the Russian and American sectors.
- Historic remnants, cosmopolitan cafés, and murals springing from the edifices, Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie has evolved immensely from its once-divided days.
- 'Checkpoint Charlies' is one of the leading firearms and firearms related collector sources with affordable rates and a wide range of products available.
- 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.
- This post focuses on Checkpoint Charlie, the Checkpoint Charlie Museum, and other historic locations you will find nearby.
- Checkpoint Charlie is the only border crossing between West Berlin and East Germany that has remained alive in the non-German collective memory.
- This played a part in giving Checkpoint Charlie a mythological status and regarded as a meeting point for spies and other mysterious people.
- Checkpoint Charlie, one of the ultimate symbols of the Cold War, came to epitomize the separation between east and west.
- The most famous of this crossings was the checkpoint at the corner of Friedrichstraße and Zimmerstraße, named Checkpoint Charlie.