Checkpoint Charlie
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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German newspapers homed in on his provocative suggestion to pedestrianise Friedrichstrasse around Checkpoint Charlie and block it with two disused tanks, harking back to the 1961 crisis.
From The Guardian • Nov. 13, 2019
East Berliners flocked to the nearest border crossings at the Berlin Wall, especially at Checkpoint Charlie, the famed crossing between the divided Berlins.
From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2019
These separately evolving planes have remained connected by a passage – in Berlin, appropriately enough – a supernatural Checkpoint Charlie kept secret from almost everyone in either world.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2018
It was restored in 1990, a year after the cellist gave an impromptu recital at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin as the wall was being torn down.
From Slate • May 11, 2016
Sergeant Michael Rafferty was guarding Checkpoint Charlie, the precise spot where US and Soviet tanks had faced off three decades earlier when the Wall first went up.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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