- The checkpoint Charlie museum itself (paid entry one ) at least a couple of hours.
- Checkpoint Charlie — the border crossing point for foreigners and diplomats, photographed at the beginning of the 1960s Image: picture-alliance/dpa/K.
- 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.
- 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...
- Stewart, on Checkpoint Charlie, we witness the classic battle between soldiers who skate and soldiers who actually care, there can only be one victor.
- During that period, there were many successful and unsuccessful escape attempts, many of which are chronicled in the Checkpoint Charlie Museum.
- Checkpoint Charlie is the only border crossing between West Berlin and East Germany that has remained alive in the non-German collective memory.
- 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.
- Checkpoint Charlie was first set up in August 1961, when communist East Germany erected the Berlin Wall to prevent its citizens from fleeing to the...
- Deutsch: Während des Kalten Krieges war der Checkpoint Charlie (Amerikanischer Kontrollpunkt) eines der Tore durch die Berliner Mauer im Zentrum Berlins.