While there are hundreds of military museums around the world, Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, or the Checkpoint Charlie Museum, is one of few memorials that expressly document the tyrannical force of ...

Checkpoint Charlie, ground zero in the Cold War split between East and West, is a top attraction for Berlin tourists. It is now threatened with development that could overshadow the site.

Checkpoint Charlie — the border crossing point for foreigners and diplomats, photographed at the beginning of the 1960s Image: picture-alliance/dpa/K. Giehr The original site has to make do with ...

The adjacent Checkpoint Charlie museum – established in 1963 on the West German side of the border and Berlin’s second-busiest with 700,000 visitors last year – is not in jeopardy.

Checkpoint Charlie under wraps Old cold war border in Berlin is site of new conflict. By Charles Hawley Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor June 11, 2004, 12:06 p.m. ET | BERLIN ...

In 1961, after the Wall was built, tanks faced each other at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin making it a world-famous symbol of German division. Today, however, visitors can only barely understand ...

Checkpoint Charlie, the Berlin Wall crossing place that came to symbolise the Cold War has degenerated into a seedy tourist trap which uses actors posing as border guards in a failed attempt to recrea ...

1 / 3 Show Caption + A U.S. tank crew stands guard at Checkpoint Charlie in West Berlin in 1961 during one of several standoffs between U.S. personnel and East German police that year.

Checkpoint Charlie continues to be one of the most popular tourist spots in Berlin. The bigger complex that houses the hotel will host an exhibition space dedicated to the history of the wall that ...

Checkpoint Charlie's lesser-known Cold War contemporary, Allied Checkpoint Bravo, has been sold at auction for the minimum bid price of €45,000 ($58,000) to an anonymous purchaser. ...