Checkpoint Charlie, ground zero in the Cold War split between East and West, is a top attraction for Berlin tourists. It is now threatened with development that could overshadow the site.

One of the most iconic reminders of the Cold War era, Checkpoint Charlie, was dismantled on 1990. The iconic checkpost served ...

Checkpoint Charlie is once again home to the Berlin Wall and the Cold War. Two new attractions aim to cater for tourists hungry for information about the historic site at the heart of the German ...

Checkpoint Charlie. Just the name conjurs up images of Cold War intrigue, of US and Soviet tanks facing off and of the great, gray wall that divided Berlin for 28 long years.

The scandal surrounding Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie refuses to go away. Ten months after wrapping the guard's hut in a tarp to protest a stripper posing as an East German secret policeman, the ...

Authorities in Germany's capital Berlin have banned local performers from wearing US army uniforms at Checkpoint Charlie, the iconic Cold War crossing between the east and west of the city. They ...

Checkpoint Charlie's lesser-known Cold War contemporary, Allied Checkpoint Bravo, has been sold at auction for the minimum bid price of €45,000 ($58,000) to an anonymous purchaser. ...

The likes of Mikhail Gorbachev, the late Václav Havel, James Baker III and Cold War historian Timothy Garton Ash argued in 2008 for a new museum at the checkpoint that would focus on the ...

BERLIN — Berlin is unveiling a new Cold War exhibition at the former Checkpoint Charlie border crossing — a step toward setting up a permanent museum about the standoff between East and West ...

Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth Iain MacGregor. Scribner, $30 (352p) ISBN 978-1-982100-03-2 ...

Checkpoint Charlie Museum is an iconic site that chronicles the history of Berlin's division and the daring escapes that took ...

Berlin, Germany, June 22, 1990: Dignitaries stand in front of Checkpoint Charlie as the historic guard post is removed by a crane. The site of many daring escapes, one infamous showdown between U ...