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    Checkpoint Charlie (or "Checkpoint C") was the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War (1947–1991)...
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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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    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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  • October 1961, Soviet and US forces confronted one another at Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie, creating the potential for all-out war between the powers. Heinz...
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    known was the vehicle and pedestrian checkpoint at the corner of Friedrichstraße and Zimmerstraße (Checkpoint Charlie), which was restricted to Allied personnel...
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    Arbeitsgemeinschaft 13 August e.V. Association (supporting association of the Checkpoint Charlie Museum), he was a close personal friend of the chairman of the anti...
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    German actress. Her 2007 portrayal of Sara Bender in Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie, based on the true story of Jutta Fleck, earned her the award for...
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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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  • Look up checkpoint or checkpoints in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Checkpoint may refer to: Border checkpoint, a place on the land border between two...
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    with barbed wire into the Kreuzberg district of West Berlin near Checkpoint Charlie. Their plan was initially successful as both Fechter and Kulbeik reached...
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    stamps from the Drewitz checkpoint. Berlin border crossings Helmstedt–Marienborn border crossing (Checkpoint Alpha) Checkpoint Charlie Durie, William (2012)...
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    released a four-song EP on Rhino Records (RNEP 603) under the name Checkpoint Charlie. The record is a dark but whimsical take on late 1970s/early 1980s...
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    Grenzübergangsstellen ("checkpoints"), and requests for migration received very limited approval from authorities. Checkpoint Charlie was special, since this...
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  • Socialist Unity Party of Germany. She is known as "The Woman from Checkpoint Charlie". Following a failed attempt to escape from the German Democratic...
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  • 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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  • 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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    1959) is a German human rights activist and museum director of the Checkpoint Charlie Museum. In 1995, she married the museum's co-founder and former director...
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    Civilian checkpoints or security checkpoints are distinguishable from border or frontier checkpoints in that they are erected and enforced within contiguous...
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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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    Checkpoint Charlie and the Berlin Wall Customs Frontier Closed Area is the border area in Hong Kong with China Garitas in Mexico Israeli checkpoint Schengen...
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    other media between branches. Workers often referred to the system as Checkpoint Charlie due to the strict, well-documented procedures that ensured its efficiency...
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  • 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 search...
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    political-military confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union at Checkpoint Charlie with both several American and Soviet/East German tanks and troops...
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    tourist sites of Berlin like the Reichstag and Berlin Hauptbahnhof, Checkpoint Charlie, Museum Island, the TV tower, Brandenburg Gate, Unter den Linden,...
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    he stopped at the Congress Hall, near the Brandenburg Gate, and at Checkpoint Charlie, before delivering at West Berlin's city hall a speech, which became...
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    well-known, such as Bravo Zulu (letter code BZ) for "well done", Checkpoint Charlie (Checkpoint C) in Berlin, and Zulu Time for Greenwich Mean Time or Coordinated...
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  • simply known as Charlie Charlie, Texas, an unincorporated community in Clay County Checkpoint Charlie, famous Berlin Wall crossing point Charlie Creek (Florida)...
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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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    by the Berlin Wall. One of the most important border crossings was Checkpoint Charlie, near Kreuzberg. Situated in central Berlin and mostly in its old...
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    Cold War it was bisected by the Berlin Wall and was the location of Checkpoint Charlie. As central Berlin's traditional shopping street, Friedrichstraße...
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