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	Checkpoint Charlie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Checkpoint Charlie is at the junction of Friedrichstraße with Zimmerstraße and - amazingly - Mauerstraße ('Wall Street') in the Friedrichstadt neighborhood, in the heart of Berlin, which was divided by the Berlin Wall.
		Checkpoint Charlie became a symbol of the Cold War, representing the separation of east and west, and – for the East Germans – a gateway to freedom.
		Checkpoint Charlie was initially blocked only by a gate; a citizen of the GDR (East Germany) smashed a car through it to escape, so a strong pole was erected.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Checkpoint_Charlie (1557 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Checkpoint Charlie tower demolished
		A director of the Checkpoint Charlie museum dedicated to the Berlin Wall, Alexandra Hildebrandt, said the decision to bulldoze the watchtower was a "barbaric act".
		Checkpoint Charlie - which divided the US and Soviet sectors in Berlin - was used as a crossing for foreigners such as Allied diplomats and soldiers.
		The original checkpoint buildings were dismantled and reassembled at the Allied Museum in the west of the city.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1062037.stm (372 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Checkpoint Charlie
		Checkpoint Charlie provided the main crossing point for officials, dignitaries and foreigners between the east and west sides of Berlin.
		After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Checkpoint Charlie guardhouse was moved to the Allied Museum in 1990.
		Rather than focus on the historical role of Checkpoint Charlie or the Berlin Wall, the museum concentrates on true-life stories of the separation of friends and family and their eventual reunification.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A4094624 (779 words)

	Crosswalk.com - Checkpoint Charlie Memorial Threatened by Funding Shortage, Apathy
		It stands alongside a privately-owned Checkpoint Charlie Museum, which is visited daily by large numbers of tourists, and it documents the history of the wall and the Cold War.
		Checkpoint Charlie became famous as the site where American and Soviet tanks confronted each other in October 1961, one of the tensest periods of the Cold War, until President Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev agreed to move their tanks back.
		Developers bought the Checkpoint Charlie site after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 but the project went bankrupt and the land was reclaimed by the BAG Bank.
	www.crosswalk.com /news/1337887.html (746 words)

	Checkpoint Charlie - History of Berlin Wall
		The other two checkpoints were Helmstedt at the West German-East German border and Dreilinden at the West Berlin and East Germany border.
		Based on the phonetic alphabet the Helmstedt checkpoint was called Alpha, Dreilinden Checkpoint Bravo and the checkpoint at Friedrichstrasse got the name Charlie.
		Checkpoint Charlie was removed on June 22, 1990.
	www.dailysoft.com /berlinwall/history/checkpoint-charlie.htm (251 words)

	At Bosnia's Checkpoint Charlie, GIs make best of a muddy scene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Checkpoint Charlie, in the town of Memici, is an important one, controlling a key intersection on the only road between Tuzla and Zvornik.
		Charlie is in a zone of separation between the Bosnian Muslims and Orthodox Serbs, who lived side-by-side before the war.
		These were Muslims who were returning from the Serb side of Checkpoint Charlie to revisit the homes they left during the war.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/96/03/10/charlie.html (731 words)

	Section 4 Checkpoint Charlie
		The border crossing at Checkpoint Charlie has gone down in history as the outpost of the free world.
		Checkpoint Alpha was located in Helmstedt, Lower Saxony, between the Federal Republic of Germany and the territory of the GDR.
		Checkpoint Bravo was the crossing point between West Berlin and the GDR.
	www.dhm.de /ENGLISH/ausstellungen/breakthrough/S4.htm (465 words)

	The urinals of Haus am Checkpoint Charlie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Checkpoint Charlie was the monitoring tower used to control the area around the Berlin Wall that divided the city during the Cold War.
		It was demolished soon after the 1989 revolution, but the Haus am Checkpoint Charlie museum that stands in its place is well worth a visit to discover the historic significance of this apparently unremarkable site.
		There were many brave, if foolhardy, attempts by civilians to escape from the east - 80 were shot after being detected from Checkpoint Charlie - and the ingenious methods used are described alongside photos from the Cold War era.
	www.urinal.net /checkpoint_charlie (153 words)

	CNN.com - Checkpoint Charlie revived on Berlin Wall anniversary - August 13, 2000
		A month later the U.S. military built Checkpoint Charlie, so-called because it was the third U.S. checkpoint along the Cold War boundary after Alpha and Bravo.
		Checkpoint Charlie became the symbolic heart of the Cold War, especially after encounters between U.S. and Soviet tanks in the area for several days in October 1961.
		The checkpoint remained a front line in the Cold War until November 1989, when East Germans streamed across the border after the lifting of 28-year-old travel restrictions.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/08/13/germany.checkpoint/index.html (472 words)

	Checkpoint Charlie under wraps \| csmonitor.com
		Checkpoint Charlie, named after the third letter in the American military alphabet, is a magnet for tourists in Berlin with over 700,000 visitors annually.
		The checkpoint's most current controversy - despite explanations for the protest in three languages taped to all sides of the covered shack - has proven difficult for visitors to comprehend.
		Himself a former West German soldier who was kidnapped by the Stasi in 1974 and held in an East German political prison for nine years, he sees Checkpoint Charlie as a symbol not only of the four-decade East-West standoff, but also of the crimes committed by the East German state.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/0611/p07s01-woeu.html (741 words)

	AsianWeek.com: National News: Washington Journal: Could We See Our Own Checkpoint Charlie? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		For those too young to remember, Checkpoint Charlie was the most famous guard-post in the world at the dawn of the nuclear age.
		Checkpoint Charlie provided the opening between the East and West sectors of Berlin, at a time when the Cold War between the United States and the former Soviet Union was still a source of front page news.
		The museum at Checkpoint Charlie provides photos of the famous stand-offs between the Soviet and American tanks that stood guard there four decades ago.
	www.asianweek.com /2000_12_22/news4_washj.html (949 words)

	Checkpoint Charlie becomes history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The checkpoint was established by the U.S. Army in 1961 after East Germany closed its border and later that year was the scene of a dramatic face-off between U.S. and Soviet tanks.
		The adjacent Checkpoint Charlie museum -- established in 1963 on the West German side of the border and Berlin's second-busiest with 700,000 visitors last year -- is not in jeopardy.
		Hildebrandt, however, maintains that the wall should be remembered at Checkpoint Charlie and rules out re-erecting the memorial elsewhere.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05188/533925.stm (818 words)

	Davids Medienkritik: Berlin Outrage: Checkpoint Charlie Monument to be Bulldozed July 4th (Part 2)
		It was Bankaktiengesellschaft which leased the land to the Checkpoint Charlie Museum and its director, Ms.
		» Checkpoint Charlie Monument to be Bulldozed from Duc In Altum
		The official memorial at Checkpoint Charlie is about the confrontation of the SU and the USA right at that place (why would you have two memorials for the same purpose...?).
	medienkritik.typepad.com /blog/2005/06/berlin_outrage__1.html (8219 words)

	(GCGV6Y) Checkpoint Charlie (rev 3) by Goofy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The most important one was called Charlie (3rd in the alphabet) at the Friedrichstrasse.
		Checkpoint Charlie ligt aan de Houtribdijk, de enige weg van Enkhuizen naar Lelystad, Deze dijk scheidt de Markerwaard van het IJsselmeer.
		Checkpoint Charlie is situated on the Houtribdijk, the only route from Enkhuizen (west) to Lelystad (east).
	www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCGV6Y (1035 words)

	Checkpoint Charlie sign
		During the Cold War, Checkpoint Charlie was the crossroads between East and West Germany.
		Checkpoint Charlie was the biggest crossover between the two points.
		Deriving its name from the military alphabet (Alpha and Bravo were the first two checkpoints), Charlie was a symbol for freedom and at the same time an indication of separation.
	www.pimall.com /nais/pivintage/checkpointcharlie.html (108 words)

	About Us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Checkpoint Charlie are four of the most fun loving guys you'll ever meet.
		Whether its a pub in Frankston, a private function at the Telstra Dome, or a club in Melbourne at four in the morning, Checkpoint Charlie are where it's at, with all your favourite tunes, past and present day!
		A veteran at such a young age, Mark is the guitar, and the harmony for Checkpoint Charlie.
	www.checkpointcharlie.com.au /us.htm (204 words)

	Checkpoint Charlie and Friedrichstrasse (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		With the construction of the wall, Americans erected Checkpoint Charlie on Sunday August 13th, 1961, in the Friedrichstraße.
		Checkpoint Alpha was at Helmstedt, the autobahn checkpoint passing from West Germany into East Germany; Checkpoint Bravo was at Dreilinden, where motor traffic left East Germany and entered West Berlin.
		The world famous Checkpoint Charlie was located at the border of the districts of Kreuzberg and Mitte and thus at the border of East and West Berlin.
	www.smart-travel-germany.com.cob-web.org:8888 /checkpoint-charlie.html (550 words)

	montrealfood.com: Reviews >> Checkpoint Charlie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Step into the bathroom at Checkpoint Charlie and you feel like immediately making sure the door is secure while you fumble sweatily (despite the cold) for the canister of microfilm.
		But he’ll shoot you just as dead if you don’t try the Assiette de Grillades Variées (mixed sampling of Heidleberg brochette, Kreuzberg filet, Schnitzel and house sausage served with Checkpoint Charlie’s potatoes and sauerkraut - $17.95) which is not a bad thing, as the alternative is going over to the Russians.
		Apparently one of the three owners is into antique woodworking, which explains the extremely ornate fireplace that dominates the room, but it’s difficult to tell what muses inspired the rest: an intriguing curtain (iron?) at the top of the stairs, vaguely WWII-looking fl-and-white framed photos and lounge-lizard halogen lamp-ramps.
	www.montrealfood.com /restos/checkpointcharlie.html (473 words)

	Berlin Tourist Guide: Checkpoint Charlie
		At the area of the former border checkpoint office buildings were built and the last empty sites will be closed with new office buildings in the future.
		A short wall of bricks is the last original witness of the times of this world known border crossing point in the heart of Berlin.
		The Museum at Checkpoint Charlie, founded by Rainer Hildebrandt, offers an exhibition about the Berlin Wall in the style of the 70s and has become a museum in the museum.
	www.dailysoft.com /berlinwall/guide/checkpoint-charlie.htm (161 words)

	AlterNet: War on Iraq: Checkpoint, Charlie?
		Next thing you know, soldiers are screaming at you, pointing their rifles and swiveling tank guns in your direction, and you didn't even know it was a checkpoint.
		It's a natural reaction: Angry soldiers are screaming at you in a language you don't understand, and you think they're saying "get out of here," and you're terrified to boot, so you try to drive your way out.
		Ciezadlo adds that among the myriad of reasons why Iraqi drivers might try to hurry past checkpoints is that many of them are set up outside former government ministries.
	www.alternet.org /waroniraq/2005/03/003129.html (332 words)

	Legacy Matters: Checkpoint Charlie updated
		So they would rather allow the crosses to be bulldozed on July 4th and mockingly associate the monument with Disneyland, a place that many Germans see as a symbol of trivial American commercialization.
		The Checkpoint Charlie monument has been forcibly destroyed. Some 190 police officers were assigned to assure removal of the crosses according to Davids Medienkritik.
		Checkpoint Charlie was the front-line of U.S, efforts to contain communism says Davids Medienkritik.
	www.estatevaults.com /lm/archives/001673.html (304 words)

	Checkpoint Charlie : iSOUND.COM
		After the demo tape was released CC played a couple of gigs until they felt it was time to record some new material.
		The second demo tape was released in the spring of 2004 and from that moment on the number of gigs started to increase and Checkpoint Charlie began to find their audience who seemed to think that CC’s 80’s sounding Heavy Metal was something really cool.
		Full with inspiration and confidence a number of new songs were made and recorded during the autumn of 2005 which became Checkpoint Charlie’s third demo tape called “Checkpoint Charlie III”.
	www.isound.com /checkpoint_charlie (268 words)

	Davids Medienkritik: Berlin: Checkpoint Charlie Monument Forcibly Destroyed
		Checkpoint Charlie has been torn down by a German bank with no sense of history and very little shame.
		Checkpoint Charlie monument too embarrassing for Berlin elites The horrors of history forgotten, the promise of history repeated.
		Discussing the claim to establish a museum for the cold war as a whole at Checkpoint Charlie (which would be far more logical thinking its function and which AFAIK, does not exist by now), I would support it.
	medienkritik.typepad.com /blog/2005/07/berlin_checkpoi_2.html (13682 words)

	purevolume™ \| Checkpoint Charlie (NJ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		They soon discovered they transformed into Checkpoint Charlie, a band that is cool and likes to ROCK!
		Checkpoint Charlie (NJ) hasn't posted a blog yet.
		Checkpoint Charlie (NJ) hasn't posted any shows yet.
	www.purevolume.com /checkpointcharlienj/stats (114 words)

	purevolume™ \| Checkpoint Charlie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Checkpoint Charlie is a Garage/Indie rock group, with grunge and classic rock influences, from Eugene Oregon.
		We have a few older recordings for now, soon there will be more.
		Due to differances in opinions regarding religion, and A.D.H.D, we have gone through some troubled times and we have been in a short hiatus, well, almost a year now.
	www.purevolume.com /checkpointcharlie (89 words)

	Checkpoint Charlie - Wikipedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Der Checkpoint Charlie war einer der bekanntesten Berliner Grenzübergänge zwischen 1945 und 1990.
		Checkpoint Alpha war die amerikanische Seite des Grenzkontrollpunktes Helmstedt-Marienborn und Checkpoint Bravo die amerikanische Seite des Grenzkontrollpunktes Dreilinden-Drewitz.
		Heute zählt der Checkpoint Charlie zu den bekanntesten Sehenswürdigkeiten der Stadt Berlin, neben dem erwähnten Kontrollpunkt kann man hier das Mauermuseum, die letzte Kremlflagge und weitere Fragmente der Trennung Deutschlands besichtigen.
	de.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Checkpoint_Charlie (394 words)

	www.myspace.com/checkpointcharlieaudio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This is not about just one band, but about a whole bunch of bands from the small town of Stavanger, Norway.
		What they all have in common is that they are released on the local independent label Checkpoint Charlie Audio Productions (CCAP).
		The tunes on the player will be changed from time to time to give you all a chance to sample some of the music and check out the local scene & talents.
	www.myspace.com /checkpointcharlieaudio (667 words)

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