Checkpoint Charlie

American  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

The courthouse looks more like Berlin’s Checkpoint Charlie than a public building.

From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 2021

And in 1961, Checkpoint Charlie seized the world’s attention when a diplomatic spat about allied forces’ freedom to travel in East Berlin quickly escalated and saw Soviet and American tanks squaring up to one another.

From The Guardian • Nov. 13, 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

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