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Checkpoint Charlie (or "Checkpoint C") was the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War (1947–1991), as named by the Western Allies.
East German leader Walter Ulbricht agitated and maneuvered to get the Soviet Union's permission to construct the Berlin Wall in 1961 to stop emigration and defection westward through the Border system, preventing escape across the city sector border from East Berlin into West Berlin. Checkpoint Charlie became a symbol of the Cold War, representing the separation of East and West. Soviet and American tanks briefly faced each other at the location during the Berlin Crisis of 1961. On 26 June 1963, U.S. President John F. Kennedy visited Checkpoint Charlie and looked from a platform onto the Berlin Wall and into East Berlin.
Checkpoint Charlie (or "Checkpoint C") was the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War (1947–1991), as named by the Western Allies.
East German leader Walter Ulbricht agitated and maneuvered to get the Soviet Union's permission to construct the Berlin Wall in 1961 to stop emigration and defection westward through the Border system, preventing escape across the city sector border from East Berlin into West Berlin. Checkpoint Charlie became a symbol of the Cold War, representing the separation of East and West. Soviet and American tanks briefly faced each other at the location during the Berlin Crisis of 1961. On 26 June 1963, U.S. President John F. Kennedy visited Checkpoint Charlie and looked from a platform onto the Berlin Wall and into East Berlin.
Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, 2018. Taken against historic background photo of Khrushchev, Ulbricht and their henchmen visiting the Berlin Wall during the early 1960s.
ENG: I was recently out and about in Berlin again with my family and took the opportunity for a little photo tour as well as a walk. ☻ So, quite unselfishly, we stopped by Checkpoint Charlie not far from Charlottenstraße 16 in Mitte to take a photo of the apartment block with its imposing square courtyard.
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GER: Kürzlich war ich mit meiner Familie mal wieder in Berlin unterwegs und nutzte die Gelegenheit gleich für eine kleine Fototour neben dem Spaziergang. ☻ So kamen wir auch ganz uneigennützig beim Checkpoint Charlie unweit der Charlottenstraße 16 in Mitte vorbei, um das Mietshaus mit seinem imposanten viereckigen Innenhof zu fotografieren.
Checkpoint Charlie (or "Checkpoint C") was the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War (1947–1991), as named by the Western Allies.
East German leader Walter Ulbricht agitated and maneuvered to get the Soviet Union's permission to construct the Berlin Wall in 1961 to stop emigration and defection westward through the Border system, preventing escape across the city sector border from East Berlin into West Berlin. Checkpoint Charlie became a symbol of the Cold War, representing the separation of East and West. Soviet and American tanks briefly faced each other at the location during the Berlin Crisis of 1961. On 26 June 1963, U.S. President John F. Kennedy visited Checkpoint Charlie and looked from a platform onto the Berlin Wall and into East Berlin.
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© ángel mateo
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Checkpoint Charlie (or "Checkpoint C") was the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War (1947–1991), as named by the Western Allies.
East German leader Walter Ulbricht agitated and maneuvered to get the Soviet Union's permission to construct the Berlin Wall in 1961 to stop emigration and defection westward through the Border system, preventing escape across the city sector border from East Berlin into West Berlin. Checkpoint Charlie became a symbol of the Cold War, representing the separation of East and West. Soviet and American tanks briefly faced each other at the location during the Berlin Crisis of 1961. On 26 June 1963, U.S. President John F. Kennedy visited Checkpoint Charlie and looked from a platform onto the Berlin Wall and into East Berlin.
ENG: I was recently out and about in Berlin again with my family and took the opportunity for a little photo tour as well as a walk. ☻ So, quite unselfishly, we stopped by Checkpoint Charlie not far from Charlottenstraße 16 in Mitte to take a photo of the apartment block with its imposing square courtyard.
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GER: Kürzlich war ich mit meiner Familie mal wieder in Berlin unterwegs und nutzte die Gelegenheit gleich für eine kleine Fototour neben dem Spaziergang. ☻ So kamen wir auch ganz uneigennützig beim Checkpoint Charlie unweit der Charlottenstraße 16 in Mitte vorbei, um das Mietshaus mit seinem imposanten viereckigen Innenhof zu fotografieren.
Berlin
After the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc and the reunification of Germany, the building at Checkpoint Charlie became a tourist attraction.
-Wikipedia-
Soko We Might Be Dead By Tomorrow
Na razie krótka przerwa. A ponieważ nastrój tradycyjnie jest jaki jest poprawiam go sobie dłuższy czas tą piosenką - polecam. Dziękuję wszystkim.
Give me all your love now
'Cause for all we know
We might be dead by tomorrow
I can't
Go on wasting my time
Adding scars to my heart
'Cause all I hear is
"I'm not ready now"
And I can tell
That you didn't have
To face your mother
losing her lover
Without saying goodbye
Without saying goodbye
'Cause you didn't have time
I don't want to judge
What's in your heart
But if you're not ready for love
How can you be ready for life?
So let's love fully
And let's love loud
Let's love now
Cause soon enough we'll die
Tourist cities, groups of tourists, waiting, probably attention, sometimes boredom, lurking within its own world interpretation. Countless museums are conquered by groups. A few people catch the eye of a photographer.
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Friedrichstraße - Berlin Mitte
De foto van de soldaat bij Checkpoint Charlie is de voormalige Amerikaanse soldaat en tubaspeler Jeff Harper. Zijn foto maakt deel uit van een serie foto's, genomen ter nagedachtenis aan de laatste geallieerde soldaten in Berlijn in 1994.
The photo of the soldier at Checkpoint Charlie is by former American soldier and tuba player Jeff Harper. His photo is part of a series of photographs taken in memory of the last Allied soldiers in Berlin in 1994.
Berlin
After the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc and the reunification of Germany, the building at Checkpoint Charlie became a tourist attraction.
-Wikipedia-
Checkpoint Charlie was the name given by the Western Allies to a crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War. Other Allied checkpoints on the Autobahn to the West were Checkpoint Alpha at Helmstedt and Checkpoint Bravo at Dreilinden, southeast of Wannsee, named from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's phonetic alphabet. Many other sector crossing points existed in Berlin. Some of these were designated for residents of West Berlin and West German citizens. Checkpoint Charlie was designated as the single crossing point (by foot or by car) for foreigners and members of the Allied forces. (Members of the Allied forces were not allowed to use the other sector crossing point designated for use by foreigners, the Friedrichstraße railway station.) Checkpoint Charlie was located at the junction of Friedrichstraße with Zimmerstraße and Mauerstraße (which coincidentally means 'Wall Street') in the Friedrichstadt neighborhood, which was divided by the Berlin Wall. The Soviets simply called it the Friedrichstraße Crossing Point [citation needed]. The East Germans officially referred to Checkpoint Charlie as the Grenzübergangsstelle ("Border Crossing Point") Friedrich-/Zimmerstraße.
Checkpoint Charlie became a symbol of the Cold War, representing the separation of east and west, and — for some East Germans — a gateway to freedom. It is frequently featured in spy movies and books, such as those by John le Carré.
former borderline between West- and East Berlin
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I have uploaded this photo before, but am doing so again on the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (November 2014) as it is the only photo I have ever seen of the location of Checkpoint Charlie prior to its existence.
My photographing of this place in 1960 was entirely fortuitous, and I had no idea that this spot was destined soon to become one of the most iconic locations in the world. I was lucky to have taken this shot, as no doubt few photos exist depicting it in pre-Berlin Wall days.
This and many other of my photographs are featured in my book "Berlin in the Cold War, 1959-1966" (Allan Hailstone, Amberley Publishing, October 2017), together with the story of my experiences of photographing divided Berlin in those years.
“From Octopussy to The Spy Who Can In From The Cold: the history of espionage in Berlin at Checkpoint Charlie.
The history of Checkpoint Charlie:
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.
Located on the corner of Friedrichstraße and Zimmerstraße, it is a reminder of the former border crossing, the Cold War and the partition of Berlin. The barrier and checkpoint booth, the flag and the sandbags are all based on the original site – and are a popular subject for photos. It’s no wonder that Checkpoint Charlie is one of the sights of Berlin that you really should see.
Where did Checkpoint Charlie get its name?:
The name Checkpoint Charlie comes from the NATO phonetic alphabet (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie). After the border crossings at Helmstedt-Marienborn (Alpha) and Dreilinden-Drewitz (Bravo), Checkpoint Charlie was the third checkpoint opened by the Allies in and around Berlin. 1945 the allies divided Berlin into four sectors - France controlled the north-western, England the western and the USA the south-western parts of the city. The Soviet Union as allocated to the whole of the eastern part of Berlin.”