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    Checkpoint Bravo ("Checkpoint B") was the name given by the Western Allies to the main Autobahn border crossing point between West Berlin and the German...
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    similarly for other Allied checkpoints on the Autobahn from the West: Checkpoint Alpha at Helmstedt and its counterpart Checkpoint Bravo at Dreilinden, Wannsee...
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  • Allied side of the checkpoint for entry into West Berlin was named Checkpoint Bravo, and Checkpoint Charlie was the Allied checkpoint for entry into (and...
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    cargo. At Checkpoint Bravo (Dreilinden) and Checkpoint Charlie (Friedrichstraße), the Allied occupation forces had established checkpoints, but they were...
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    Berlin. A brief stand-off between American and Soviet tanks occurred at Checkpoint Charlie in October following a dispute over free movement of Allied personnel;...
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    towns of Helmstedt and Marienborn (Checkpoint Alpha), and which entered West Berlin at Dreilinden (Checkpoint Bravo for the Allied forces) in southwestern...
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    built during the Nazi era. They left West Berlin at Checkpoint Dreilinden, also called Checkpoint Bravo (W)/Potsdam-Drewitz (E). Transit routes to Poland...
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    Checkpoint Charlie Museum The Checkpoint Charlie Museum (German: Das Mauermuseum – Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie) is a private museum in Berlin. It...
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    topped with barbed wire into the Kreuzberg district of West Berlin near Checkpoint Charlie. Their plan was initially successful as both Fechter and Kulbeik...
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  • Gallery Checkpoint Charlie Museum Topography of Terror Mauerpark Chapel of Reconciliation Border crossings Bornholmer Straße Checkpoint Charlie Checkpoint Bravo...
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  • Gallery Checkpoint Charlie Museum Topography of Terror Mauerpark Chapel of Reconciliation Border crossings Bornholmer Straße Checkpoint Charlie Checkpoint Bravo...
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    Gallery Checkpoint Charlie Museum Topography of Terror Mauerpark Chapel of Reconciliation Border crossings Bornholmer Straße Checkpoint Charlie Checkpoint Bravo...
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    November 1989 is known as the night the Wall came down. Walking through Checkpoint Charlie, 10 November 1989 At the Brandenburg Gate, 10 November 1989 Juggling...
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  • Benni's caravan is located at Zollamt Berlin-Dreilinden (the former Checkpoint Bravo). Exterior hospital shots were filmed at the old section of Lungenklinik...
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    Gallery Checkpoint Charlie Museum Topography of Terror Mauerpark Chapel of Reconciliation Border crossings Bornholmer Straße Checkpoint Charlie Checkpoint Bravo...
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  • Bravo Two Zero is a 1993 book written under the pseudonym 'Andy McNab'. The book is a partially fictional account of an SAS patrol that becomes compromised...
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  • at the Glienicke Bridge, with Pryor to be released simultaneously at Checkpoint Charlie. Tension builds as Pryor fails to arrive. The CIA, still primarily...
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  • Sasha is taken by Vlad and East German secret police. Jonathan goes to Checkpoint Charlie to cross into West Berlin. Sasha is stripped and given a cavity...
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  • Bravo Two Zero was the call sign of an eight-man British Army Special Air Service (SAS) patrol, deployed into Iraq during the First Gulf War in January...
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    between 1961 and 1989. Located on the present A 115 motorway was the US Checkpoint Bravo (Drewitz-Dreilinden), built in 1969. Nikolassee is served by the S-Bahn...
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  • Gallery Checkpoint Charlie Museum Topography of Terror Mauerpark Chapel of Reconciliation Border crossings Bornholmer Straße Checkpoint Charlie Checkpoint Bravo...
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    Grenzübergangsstellen ("checkpoints"), and requests for migration received very limited approval from authorities. Checkpoint Charlie was special, since...
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    Glienicke Bridge (category Checkpoints)
    being the only such checkpoint of not only having a Soviet presence, but also of being under full Soviet control; all other checkpoints were under East German...
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  • Kennedy delivering the speech plays as part of the main exhibit at the Checkpoint Charlie Museum. The original manuscript of the speech is stored with the...
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  • Gallery Checkpoint Charlie Museum Topography of Terror Mauerpark Chapel of Reconciliation Border crossings Bornholmer Straße Checkpoint Charlie Checkpoint Bravo...
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  • words have become well-known, such as Bravo Zulu (letter code BZ) for "well done", Checkpoint Charlie (Checkpoint C) in Berlin, and Zulu Time for Greenwich...
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    Gallery Checkpoint Charlie Museum Topography of Terror Mauerpark Chapel of Reconciliation Border crossings Bornholmer Straße Checkpoint Charlie Checkpoint Bravo...
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  • Gallery Checkpoint Charlie Museum Topography of Terror Mauerpark Chapel of Reconciliation Border crossings Bornholmer Straße Checkpoint Charlie Checkpoint Bravo...
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    8.300 km (5.157 mi). After World War II, the Berlin Wall, with its Checkpoint Bravo at Dreilinden/Drewitz, came no closer than about one mile (1.6 km)...
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  • Agent Niall MacGinnis as Checkpoint Charlie Guard Scott Finch as German Guide Anne Blake as Miss Crail George Mikell as Checkpoint Charlie Guard Richard...
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