- 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 was the best known Berlin Wall crossing point between East & West Berlin during the Cold War (1961-1989).
- In the night of November 9th, 1989 about 3000 West Berliners came to Checkpoint Charlie and several hundred East Berliners to Checkpoint Friedrichstraße.
- The most famous of this crossings was the checkpoint at the corner of Friedrichstraße and Zimmerstraße, named Checkpoint Charlie.
- Checkpoint Charlie is kind of one of them. Of course most of the border installations are gone – but there is still the little booth in the middle of the street...
- In response, the United States, France and Britain stationed military police at Checkpoint Charlie to ensure their officials had ready access to the border.
- There was also Checkpoint Alpha and Bravo, but Checkpoint Charlie was significant in that only foreigners were allowed to cross through it.
- British spy James Bond (played by Roger Moore) passed through Checkpoint Charlie in the 1983 film Octopussy from West Berlin to East.
- checkpoint-charlie-soviet-us-tanks-1961. ... Checkpoint Charlie. Friedrichstraße 43-45, 10117 Berlin.
- Checkpoint Charlie was the best known Berlin Wall crossing point between East & West Berlin during the Cold War (1961-1989).