- Checkpoint Charlie was the setting for many thrillers and spy novels, from James Bond in Octopussy to The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.
- 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...
- The rebuilt Checkpoint Charlie is a popular tourist attraction in Berlin, where visitors can pay to have their picture taken with actors dressed in American military...
- Was a bus trip and the wall still excised and the bus driver drove passed Checkpoint Charlie and I took a sneaky photo looking across to the checkpoint.
- Many tried to trick the guards at Checkpoint Charlie to get to the West, but most were unsuccessful and risked being shot then and there.
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- Checkpoint Charlie was an important crossing point in the Berlin Wall, which separated East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
- The most famous of this crossings was the checkpoint at the corner of Friedrichstraße and Zimmerstraße, named Checkpoint Charlie.
- 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 is the only border crossing between West Berlin and East Germany that has remained alive in the non-German collective memory.