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Rund 100 Menschen protestieren in Berlin gegen das diktatorische Regime im Tschad. Anlass der Demonstration unter dem Motto "Wir sind alle Zouhoura! Nein zur Gewalt an Frauen!" war ein sexueller Übergriff auf eine 16jährige Schülerin, an der nach Angaben der Veranstalter auch die Söhne von Regierungsmitgliedern und Generälen beteiligt waren. Die Protestierenden fordern eine Aufklärung der Verbrechen und die Bestrafung der Täter. Sie solidarisieren sich mit allen Frauen, die Gewalt und Unterdrückung ausgesetz sind.
Auf der Auftaktkundgebung am Checkpoint Charlie sprach auch ein Imam zu den Anwesenden.
Rund 1.000 Menschen nehmen in Berlin an einem kurzfristig organisierten Demonstrationszug zur Erinnerung an die Opfer von rassistischer Polizeigewalt in den USA teil. Die hauptsächlich aus der Black Community stammenden Menschen ziehen lautstark skandierend durch die Bezirke Neukölln, Kreuzberg bis zum Potsdamer Platz in Mitte. Dort endet die Demonstration mit einer Abschlusskundgebung, auf der die Namen der von US Polizisten getöteten Menschen verlesen werden, während sich die Teilnehme aus Respekt vor den ausgelöschten Leben auf den Boden legen.
Checkpoint Charlie was a crossing point between East and West Berlin during the Cold War. Others on the Autobahn to the West were Checkpoint Alpha at Helmstedt and Checkpoint Bravo at Dreilinden, southeast of Wannsee, named from the NATO phonetic alphabet. Many other checkpoints existed, some for German citizens, others for foreigners and members of Allied forces. Checkpoint Charlie is at the junction of Friedrichstraße with Zimmerstraße and Mauerstraße (which coincidentally means 'Wall Street') in the Friedrichstadt neighborhood, in the heart of Berlin, which was divided by the Berlin Wall. The Soviets simply called it the Friedrichstraße Crossing Point.
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Checkpoint Alpha and Bravo were Cold War crossing points between East and West Berlin at Helmstedt and Dreilinden respectively. Checkpoint Charlie, where Friedrichstraße crosses Mauerstraße, was and still is far more famous than these, or any of the many other crossing points.
Checkpoint Charlie is indeed probably the most famous symbol of the Cold War, ranking along with John Kennedy’s Bay of Pigs and Nikita Khrushchev’s "Мы вас похороним!", "We will bury you!" in 1956, or banging his shoe on the table at the UN General Assembly in 1960.
My own memory of the Cold War centres round the Cuban Missile Crisis. I was at primary school in Nairobi, and from all my science fiction reading I knew that Nairobi was one of the safest places to be, from the point of view of radioactive clouds. Not only did it lie on the Equator, well south of the inter-tropical convergence zone, but it is also nearly 2000m above mean sea level, which meant that much of the radioactive dust would have settled out of the atmosphere before reaching us. On the other hand, the US Air Force knew that too, and had planned to land at least some of any surviving B52s at what was then called Embakasi airport. And the Soviets knew it as well, so I guessed that they might reserve a small nuclear bomb just for us. I was 11; I can remember reading Mordecai Roshwald’s “Level 7” at that time and telling my friends about it while playing marbles in the dust.
My vocabulary was odd – but so was that of many of my school-mates. We bandied "second-strike capability”, “Mutually Assured Destruction”, “brinkmanship”, “ballistic missile”, "bomber gap", “détente”, “blast radius”, “Potemkin”, “SALT”, "missile gap", “radiation sickness”, “warheads”, “megaton”, “blast shadow”, “ICBM”, “ionizing”, “SLBM”, and other such morsels as children of other ages might have exchanged “barbed wire”, “Zeppelin”, “firing step”, “Mauser”, “raid”, “shrapnel”, “whizzbang”, “stick bomb”, “Mills bomb”, “over the top”, “machine-gun”, “trench”, “silent Susan”, “Lewis gun”, “mortar”, “howitzer”, “gangrene”, “Ross rifle”, “assault”, “gas”, “Maxim gun”, “mine”, “Lee Enfield”, “bayonet”, and “Stokes gun”. Those children, now dust, read lists of the dead and missing; we listened to the BBC World Service and tried to understand the shadow play unfolding out of our sight. In my childhood there were fewer dreams than nightmares – we grew up in the shadow of the mushroom, and we still, I think, bear the psychological scars of that frightening time.
So where do we stand with Checkpoint Charlie, then? It moved me to see it – though I know it is only a replica of the infamous wooden shed that the Americans maintained throughout those tense years. It’s a facsimile, a sham, a simulacrum – and beside it is Rainer Hildebrandt’s Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, which houses a weird and moving collection of memorabilia from that time, reminding all who care to visit of how so much was played out in shadow boxing, by proxy.
But all around it spreads the cancer of capitalism – and I do not refer so much to the soaring buildings of the new Berlin, but to the sleazy, touristy, tacky exploitation of a ruined generation. Hitler has a lot to answer for – but so do Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill, and so do each of us in our blindly unsustainable way of living.
Opposite Checkpoint Charlie, in the Soviet sector, stood a watchtower. Seven years ago developers secretly dismantled it. So vanished the last true memorial to this crossing point. Where it once glowered is a vacant lot behind panels retelling the history of the crossing. We make museums, but we spirit away the structures, as though humans cannot stand too much reality.
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Stealth Bomber?
A red star at the wall of the Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin.
Ein roter Stern am Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin.
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After the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc and the reunification of Germany, the building at Checkpoint Charlie became a tourist attraction.
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The observation platform at Checkpoint Charlie (as viewed from an observation post on the top floor of an old building, east side of Friedrich Strasse). JFK, Ronald Regan and I, not to mention countless others, have stood on this very same platform before the Wall came down.
Checkpoint Charlie (or "Checkpoint C") was the name given by the Western Allies to the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War.
The Soviet Union prompted the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 to stop Eastern Bloc emigration westward through the Soviet border system, preventing escape across the city sector border from East Berlin to 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.
After the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc and the reunification of Germany, the building at Checkpoint Charlie became a tourist attraction. It is now located in the Allied Museum in the Dahlem neighborhood of Berlin.
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