Checkpoint Charlie

American  

noun

1. a checkpoint in Berlin at which passage was permitted between East and West Berlin.

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Checkpoint Charlie

And going home was like time travel: everything would be grey during the day, then I’d go back home through Checkpoint Charlie and see all the neon lights and colourful clothes.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 5, 2019

The East Side Gallery in Friedrichshain; the long stretch of the Berlin Wall that is clad in colorful iconic images; and the Wall Museum near Checkpoint Charlie: These sites all get ample visitors.

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

A few months later during the Berlin Crisis, when Soviet and American tanks were in a standoff at Checkpoint Charlie, RFK’s back-channeling may have been the reason the Kremlin withdrew their 30 tanks without incident.

From Slate ● May 27, 2017

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