Checkpoint Charlie
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A view of the Checkpoint Charlie crossing point, West Berlin, Germany. Checkpoint Charlie was the link between East and West Berlin when the city was divided during the Cold War, and the spot where both sides exchanged captured spies.
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Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, in a picture taken before the Berlin Wall was dismantled. Checkpoint Charlie was the military ‘border’ between communist East Berlin and democratic West Berlin, and a potent symbol of the division of Germany during the Cold War.
| Western-controlled crossing point for non-Germans between West Berlin and East Berlin, opened in 1961 as the only crossing point between the Allied and Soviet sectors. Its dismantling in June 1990 was seen as a symbol of the ending of the Cold War. |
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