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	Checkpoint Charlie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Checkpoint Charlie was on Friedrichstraße 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 (1384 words)

	Checkpoint Charlie museum rebuilds segment of Berlin Wall \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		BERLIN –; Fifteen years after the destruction of the Berlin Wall, a museum in the German capital yesterday unveiled a rebuilt segment of the Cold War barrier, defying criticism that the structure uses a painful piece of German history to create a tourist trap.
		The rebuilt concrete barrier stands at the former Checkpoint Charlie border crossing, next to a field of 1,065 crosses that represent those killed as they tried to escape the former East Germany between 1961 and 1989.
		She said the museum planned to keep the reconstructed portion of the wall in place at least through the rest of the year on land it has leased.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041101/news_1n1wall.html (450 words)

	German History in Berlin
		The void left by the holocaust is represented by a vast, empty, echoing tower, and the disorientation of immigration to a new land by the E. Hoffmann garden.
		Checkpoint Charlie is a remarkable location for a museum about the former GDR.
		The main collection of the museum is not open to the public during the renovations.
	www.berlinfo.com /Freetime/Art-Culture/museums_collections/german_history (1048 words)

	FileNet EMEA UserNet 2006 - The Maritim Hotel
		During the Cold War, Checkpoint Charlie was one of the gates of the Berlin Wall located in the city centre of Berlin.
		The checkpoint was dissolved after the fall of the wall in late 1989.
		Near the location of the Booth is the House of Checkpoint Charlie Museum, where the history of the Berlin Wall is exhibited.
	www.filenet.com /campaigns/emeausernet/sightseeing.html (1432 words)

	WVA News: Museum rebuilds segment of Berlin Wall near former Checkpoint Charlie - - The Intelligencer/Wheeling ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		WVA News: Museum rebuilds segment of Berlin Wall near former Checkpoint Charlie - - The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register
		She said the museum planed to keep the reconstructed portion of the wall in place at least through the rest of the year on land it has leased.
		After the wall fell, the original Checkpoint Charlie guardhouse was taken to a museum elsewhere in Berlin.
	www.oweb.com /inter/story/111202004_intGermany.asp (410 words)

	NEWS - INTERNATIONAL - EUROPEAN - Comcast.net
		The privately run museum has until July 5 to raise $43 million to purchase the land where it erected the memorial in October - a rebuilt section of the Berlin Wall and crosses representing the 1,067 people the museum says were killed at the border from 1961 to 1989.
		Checkpoint Charlie was established by the U.S. Army in 1961 after East Germany closed its border.
		The museum - with exhibits documenting the inventive ways in which people attempted to escape East Germany - and its reconstructed copy of the checkpoint hut are in former West Berlin and are not affected by the court decision.
	www.comcast.net /news/international/europe/index.jsp?cat=EUROPE&fn=/2005/06/29/166879.html (412 words)

	Checkpoint Charlie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		From 1961 to 1990, Checkpoint Charlie was the third Allied control post after Helmstedt ("Alpha") and Dreilinden ("Bravo").
		Checkpoint Charlie was the only border point between West and East Berlin through which members of the Allied Armed Forces were allowed to pass.
		Other relicts of the Cold War at Checkpoint Charlie include two former barriers, the signal bridge of the former check-in center, and the Wall Memorial.
	www.berlin.de /stadttouren/en/chkpoint_b.html (138 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| Arts news \| Museum rebuilds part of Berlin Wall
		Fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a museum in the German capital unveiled a rebuilt segment of the barrier yesterday, defying criticism that it is commercialising a painful piece of history.
		The rebuilt concrete barrier stands at the former Checkpoint Charlie border crossing, next to a field of 1,065 crosses meant to represent the people who were killed as they tried to escape the former East Germany between 1961 and 1989.
		Last month, the House at Checkpoint Charlie Museum said it would rebuild the barrier using 120 slabs of the original wall collected from various sites by the museum's late founder, Rainer Hildebrandt.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /news/story/0,11711,1340787,00.html (270 words)

	Gateway Pundit: Crosses Removed at Checkpoint Charlie
		Checkpoint Charlie was erected by U.S. forces in 1961 as a crossing point for foreigners to the Soviet-controlled east.
		I am surprised and disappointed that Checkpoint Charlie was sold as private property to begin with, although I am not one to argue against the rights of a private owner to use his property as he sees fit.
		Checkpoint Charlie is eternal U.S. property, we should seize the land and the bank that dares profane our sacred site.
	gatewaypundit.blogspot.com /2005/07/crosses-removed-at-checkpoint-charlie.html (1195 words)

	Germany Info: 15 Years of German Unity
		For Americans, “Checkpoint Charlie” is one of the most notorious spots of the Cold War.
		The checkpoint was removed on June 22, 1990, and is now on exhibition at the Allied Museum, located in southwest Berlin.
		But the checkpoint’s former location is now the site of the House at Checkpoint Charlie, a museum devoted to preserving stories of both the successful and unsuccessful attempts made to flee East Berlin.
	www.germany.info /relaunch/info/publications/infocus/15yrs_Reunification/wall_now.html (1823 words)

	Checkpoint Charlie relic torn down - World - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Museum owners built the memorial in October, using original sections to reconstruct a stretch of wall next to 1,067 crosses -- their tally of those who died at communist East Germany's fortified border.
		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 site, with 700,000 visitors last year -- is not in jeopardy.
	www.washtimes.com /world/20050705-100743-8791r.htm (615 words)

	Checkpoint Charlie- Berlin, Germany - VirtualTourist.com
		Based on the phonetic alphabet the Helmstedt checkpoint was called Alpha, Dreilinden Checkpoint Bravo and the checkpoint at Friedrichstrasse got the name Charlie.The main function of the checkpoint was to register and inform members of the Western Military Forces before entering East Berlin.
		The Checkpoint Charlie Museum is all that remains of the famed tower that symbolised East-West tension during the Cold War.
		The museum nearby is interesting, with its display of ingenious devices employed in escape attempts from the former East Germany.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Germany/Land_Berlin/Berlin-75302/Things_To_Do-Berlin-Checkpoint_Charlie-BR-1.html (1129 words)

	Museums energize Carnegie's new chief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The museum's founder, Rainer Hildebrandt, combined his notions of freedom and passion for art into showing and telling stories of escapees by exhibiting drawings of children from West Berlin that revealed their conceptions of the Berlin Wall.
		Robert Wilburn, president of the museum complex from 1984 through 1992, organized the group to find ways that the museums could better serve the public and involve visitors in initiatives.
		Museum staff members describe Hillenbrand as a measured man who, when people drone on during meetings, deftly guides the discussion back to its main point.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05247/563962.stm (1482 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Luckily this was not the case for Museum Island, a short walk from the Hackeschen Hofe and housing an array of impressive neo-Classical architecture, including the Berliner Dom cathedral, which was built to be a Protestant counterweight to St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
		The fascinating Pergamon Museum here is named after its most famous exhibit, a huge altar from Turkey dating from the second century B.C. You can also take a look at the Ishtar Gate, taken from the site of the ancient city of Babylon.
		The museum, which is free, offers a multimedia history of the Wall, and an observation tower allows a look down at a section of the Wall and death strip that have been preserved.
	www.sltrib.com /portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=2578647 (1678 words)

	Berlin Wall and Checkpoint Charlie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The picture on the left is the locale of Checkpoint Charlie on Friedrichstrasse.
		Checkpoint Charlie is just one of the checkpoints after World War II where you could pass from the American sector of Berlin to the Russian sector.
		This particular checkpoint was made famous by a stand-off between Russian and American tanks.
	www.punahou.edu /js/gradek/f/berlinsectors.html (311 words)

	ipedia.com: Berlin Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Checkpoint Charlie, remains and a museum about one of the crossing points (albeit restricted to Allied forces) in the Berlin Wall.
		Museum Island with the Altes Museum, Pergamon Museum and Alte Nationalgalerie
		After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, many houses in the city center of former East Berlin (today the district Mitte) were partially destroyed and had not been rebuilt since World War II.
	www.ipedia.com /berlin.html (1700 words)

	Rick Steves' Europe: Berlin: Resilient, Reunited, and Reborn
		Along with huge museums and towering architecture, its sprawling apartment complexes are immense, with courtyard after courtyard retreating in from the street front.
		The place is marked by a replica checkpoint, a thought provoking post with a young American soldier facing East and, on the flipside, a young Russian soldier facing West, and a fascinating museum — The House at Checkpoint Charlie.
		During the Cold War, this museum stood defiantly — spitting distance from the border guards — telling the story of the Wall and celebrating all the clever escapes over, under, and through it.
	www.ricksteves.com /tvr/berlinrse211_scr.htm (3199 words)

	Soldiers Online - Feature Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It contains the original Checkpoint Charlie, the former U.S. border crossing point on Friedrichstrasse, one of the planes that participated in the airlift, a former train from the East, and a piece of the Wall.
		Harnick House, the former officers club, the former U.S. Dahlem Guest House, and the Commandanteur, where the Allies came together for their meetings, were all taken over by Berlin's Free University, Bowman said.
		The House at Checkpoint Charlie museum is still where it was before the Wall came down, Fosnacht said.
	www.army.mil /Soldiers/nov2000/features/berlin2.html (1722 words)

	AAA : Travel : VIA: Berlin is Back (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Museum exhibits focus on Jewish history and art as well as the everyday lives of Jews in Berlin before the Holocaust.
		Kreuzberg was also the locale of Checkpoint Charlie, the border crossing between East and West Berlin where in 1961 Soviet and American tanks faced off in one of the Cold War's critical showdowns.
		The drab old concrete office and housing blocks of the GDR era have been demolished and replaced by a variety of new buildings.
	www.csaa.com /travel/tmpviaarticledetail/0,1436,1003040100\|387,00.html (2529 words)

	Berlin - CITIES OF EUROPE - Berlin
		The French Cathedral was built in 1780 as a church for the influencial Huguenot community of Protestant refuges that came to Berlin from Catholic France, after Elector Friedrich Wilhelm declared religious tolerance by the Edict of Potsdam in 1685.
		The museum is named after the city's most valuable artistic treasure, the Altar of Zeus and Athene (180-160 B.C.) from Pergamon in West Turkey.
		The House at Checkpoint Charlie is a museum about the history of the Berlin Wall and the dangerous attempts to cross it.
	www.netgate.co.uk /berlin.htm (1734 words)

	Funeral in Berlin locations
		Until the fall of the Berlin wall you had to cross the border of East and West Berlin at Checkpoint Charlie in the Friedrich Strasse.
		In a distant shot you see Harry walk towards this Checkpoint (now House at Checkpoint Charlie, a memorial museum about the Wall is located there).
		Checkpoint Charlie has almost dissappeared although they resurrected one of the old guardhouses.
	members.tripod.com /keesstam/fibloc.html (1128 words)

	Davids Medienkritik: Berlin Outrage: Checkpoint Charlie Monument to be Bulldozed July 4th
		To justify their decision to allow the removal, both members of the SPD and PDS have described the Checkpoint Charlie monument as an eye-sore or as something that trivializes the Cold War by turning the city into a Disneyland-style theme park.
		Checkpoint Charlie, the gateway to freedom during the Cold War in Berlin, is to be razed on July 4th....
		The Checkpoint Charlie monument in Berlin is scheduled for demolition on the 4th of July.
	medienkritik.typepad.com /blog/2005/06/berlin_outrage_.html (13126 words)

	Germany to bulldoze Checkpoint Charlie museum on 4th of July
		The Checkpoint Charlie monument scheduled for destruction July 4th in Berlin: Each cross has the name, and in some cases, photo of a victim of Communism murdered attempting to escape East Germany during the Cold War.
		To justify their decision, both members of the SPD and PDS have described the Checkpoint Charlie monument as an eye-sore or as something that trivializes the Cold War by turning the city into a Disneyland-style theme park.
		No but "Checkpoint Charlie" in Berlin is pretty much the definitive America icon of the "Cold War"service in Europe so tearing down a monument at Checkpoint Charlie on July 4 shows about the same tack as lets say tearing down a monument at Omaha Beach on July 4...
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1431117/posts (3449 words)

	A Great Capital Once Again: Berlin
		The Reichstag, gutted by fire in the 1930s, is open again and houses the lower house of Parliament-- the Bundestag.
		Named for the U.S. Army term denoting the "checkpoint" where those crossing from Communist-controlled East Berlin to the U.S. one were checked by U.S. troops, the museum shows films and photos depicting the history of the Wall.
		For those interested in ancient history, the museum offers a collection of acquisitions brought back to Germany by archeologists more than a century ago, including the Pergamon Altar of Zeus, dating back to 180 B.C. The museum is just one of several on Museum Island, including the National Gallery and the Bodemuseum.
	www.aarp.org /travel/destinations/europe/a2003-04-08-berlin.html (854 words)

	Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin - Reviews of Checkpoint Charlie - IgoUgo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The ultimate symbol of the Cold War which divided Europe and the world for four decades, the Berlin Wall is still the main tourist attraction in the German capital.
		And Checkpoint Charlie, the former border crossing, is the place many tourists head for first.
		The original border post was demolished and all that remains nowadays is a signpost bearing the words, 'You are now leaving the American sector' and a replica of a watchtower from 1961.
	www.igougo.com /planning/journalEntryActivity.asp?type=2&entryID=20337 (561 words)

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