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In Checkpoint Charlie, it's the right combination of these five features:
- hat or not
- sunglasses or not
- grey or orange
- newspaper or not
- trench coat or not
The Haus am Checkpoint Charlie contains a museum about the Berlin Wall and how East Berliners used their creativity to come up with new ways of escaping to West Berlin. The museum is fairly expensive, at 12 Euro, but worth the visit.
Famed Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin soon after the wall came down. All the hawkster s were lined up selling anything Red.
Photo taken on 16 June 2006 by James Butcher
This is the famous Checkpoint Charlie as seen from the former East Berlin. The US Army Checkpoint wooden guardhouse that is standing now was rebuilt after the original one was torn down. The wooden checkpoint house is all that the US Army had on their side of the wall. The Soviet and East German guards had on their side towers, a wide spot where they would stop and search cars and paperwork and more than twice the amount of soldiers than the West German side. For an East German to cross the wall, he or she needed a special pass with paperwork and permission and it normally included a timeline for them to come back into East Germany. During the Cold War a café was present where you see the modern restaurants, such as Subway on the right, in the photo. This is where leaders, or anyone for that matter, on the west side would sit, have something to eat or drink and look and see the conditions in East Berlin. Also in the photo you can see the modern Mauermuseum, or Wall Museum, which was opened two years after the Wall went up and has stayed open to document both the tragedy and the embarrassment of the Wall to this day.
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Checkpoint Charlie became a symbol of the Cold War, representing the separation of east and west. It was frequently featured in spy movies and books, such as those by John le Carré.
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Checkpoint Charlie (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.
A partir du 22 août 1961, le poste-frontière «Checkpoint Charlie» devint le point de passage pour les membres des forces alliées américaines, britanniques et françaises stationnées à Berlin et désirant se rendre à Berlin-Est. Les touristes étrangers pouvaient y obtenir des renseignements sur les séjours à Berlin-Est.
Ce poste-frontière doit son appellation à l’alphabet de l’OTAN. Les membres des forces alliées stationnées en Allemagne disposaient de trois points de passage pour rejoindre le centre de Berlin: le Checkpoint A (Alpha) à Helmstedt, qui était le point de passage de RFA en RDA, le Checkpoint B (Bravo) à Drewitz, qui était le poste de passage de RDA à Berlin-Ouest, et, enfin, le Checkpoint C (Charlie), le poste-frontière pour le transit de Berlin-Ouest à Berlin-Est.
Symbolisant le conflit des grandes puissances, le «Checkpoint Charlie» devint le plus connu parmi les postes-frontières intra-urbains.
Aujourd’hui, une installation de l’artiste Frank Thiel et un panneau d’information du parcours historique du mur de Berlin rappellent l’ancien poste-frontière. L’endroit acueille aussi le musée du mur de Checkpoint Charlie, qui fit installer dans la Friedrichstraße une imitation de la première guérite des alliés.
Checkpoint Charlie
Il Checkpoint Charlie era un noto posto di blocco sul confine tra i settori, dal 1961 nel Muro di Berlino.
In funzione dal 1945 al 1990, collegava il settore di occupazione sovietico (quartiere di Mitte) con quello americano (quartiere di Kreuzberg).
Era situato sulla Friedrichstraße, all'altezza dell'incrocio con Zimmerstraße. Vi era ammesso il passaggio solo di militari delle forze alleate, di diplomatici e di cittadini stranieri.
Dopo la riunificazione il punto di controllo venne abbattuto; la baracca di guardia originale oggi si trova nell'Alliertenmuseum; il 13 agosto 2000 ne venne inaugurata una ricostruzione fedele, divenuta in breve tempo di grande richiamo turistico.
Il Museo del Muro fin dallo stesso inverno 1961/62 si trova a pochi metri dal Checkpoint.
Presso il Checkpoint Charlie ebbero luogo alcune fughe molto spettacolari dalla DDR. Nei pressi, il 17 agosto 1962, fu colpito e lasciato morire dissanguato il diciottenne Peter Fechter, nel suo tentativo di fuga da Berlino Est; direttamente al Checkpoint venne ucciso nel 1974 il giovane poliziotto Burkhard Niering.
La definizione di Checkpoint Charlie deriva dall'alfabeto fonetico NATO. Checkpoint Alpha era il valico autostradale di Helmstedt (fra le due Germanie), Checkpoint Bravo il valico di Dreilinden (fra Berlino Ovest e la Germania Est).
Checkpoint Charlie border crossing between East and West Berlin, for the Four Powers (facing the American Sector), Sunday afternoon, September 15, 1985.
Chinon Cm-4 camera
50mm f1.9 lens
Agfa Vista Plus ISO 200 film
Developed in Tetenal Colortec C41 kit
Scanned on PlusTek OpticFilm 8100 film scanner
Nowadays the Cafe Einstein - Check Point Charlie, Berlin. Friedrichstraße. A famous cafe for Allied officials, Cafe Adler - "the Eagle Cafe" - was situated in this place.
October 1961. US Army tanks position themselves nightly on Friedrichstrasse in response to the presence of Soviet tanks during the Checkpoint Charlie confrontation.
Photo from the booklet "CIA Analysis of the Warsaw Pact Forces: The Importance of Clandestine Reporting."
For more information, visit the CIA's Historical Collections page (www.cia.gov/library/publications/historical-collection-pu...).