Checkpoint Charlie
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/place/15001
- Note
- "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 (1947–1991).
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." - (en.wikipedia.org 22.09.2020) - Latitude
- 52.507499694824
- Longitude
- 13.390270233154
- Time zone
- Europe/Berlin
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Fotografie: Abbau des Alliierten Kontrollhäuschens vom Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin-Kreuzberg
Abbau des Alliierten...
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Image: AlliiertenMuseum/U.S. Army Photograph - Public Domain Mark -
Fotografie: Abschiedsbesuch von US-Stadtkommandant Major General John H. Mitchell am Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin-Kreuzberg
Abschiedsbesuch von...
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Image: AlliiertenMuseum/U.S. Army Photograph - Public Domain Mark -
Fotografie: Abbau des Alliierten Kontrollhäuschens vom Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin-Kreuzberg
Abbau des Alliierten...
Object information
Image: AlliiertenMuseum/U.S. Army Photograph - Public Domain Mark -
Fotografie: Abbau des Alliierten Kontrollhäuschens vom Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin-Kreuzberg
Abbau des Alliierten...
Object information
Image: AlliiertenMuseum/U.S. Army Photograph - Public Domain Mark -
Fotografie: Abbau des Alliierten Kontrollhäuschens vom Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin-Kreuzberg
Abbau des Alliierten...
Object information
Image: AlliiertenMuseum/U.S. Army Photograph - Public Domain Mark
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