Checkpoint Charlie Berlin

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…

Checkpoint Charlie. checkpoint between East and West Berlin after WW2. Berlin, Germany. 2019

Zoll with their dog waiting to search another vehicle coming through Checkpoint Charlie (03/1982). That's "Snuffy" on the right.

Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin

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Checkpoint Charlie Berlin

Soviet and American tanks face off at Checkpoint Charlie during the Berlin Crisis, October 1961

Checkpoint Charlie - The divide between East and West Berlin - Now just a memory. I crossed here in late Oct. 1989-just before the wall came down.