Checkpoint Charlie Will Be Just a Memory
Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin’s most famous crossing point and the scene of daring East-West escapes and spy exchanges through the years, is destined to be nothing more than a Cold War memory.
The Allied guardhouses on the West Berlin side of the checkpoint are to be removed soon, and already military police have stopped conducting precautionary check-in procedures for British, French and American soldiers visiting East Berlin.
The checkpoint was established soon after the Communist regime built the wall in 1961 to separate the eastern part of the city from the western.
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