When moving by subway throughout Berlin, Germany you can discover something irritating when leaving at the station “Kochstraße“: In the middle of the street there is an US-American military checkpoint and a sign telling you that you’re about to leave the American sector. It’s the famous “Checkpoint Charlie” in front of the former border line and will, now invisible.
“Checkpoint Charlie” was erected in 1961 between the Sowjet and the American sector of occupied and divided Berlin. It was used to allow movements of Allied forces and foreign citizens between East and West, between Kreuzberg and Mitte. Many people tried to flee via this border part, often unsuccessfully. Today it is a memorial surrounded by different museums.
Friedrichstraße 43-45
10117 Berlin
Germany
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