Checkpoint Charlie, the Berlin Wall crossing place that came to symbolise the Cold War has degenerated into a seedy tourist trap which uses actors posing as border guards in a failed attempt to recrea ...

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.

Checkpoint Charlie, the former border checkpoint between East and West Berlin, is set to get a major makeover after city authorities approved a redevelopment plan following years of debate.

Berlin's iconic Checkpoint Charlie, the old US-controlled crossing point between East and West Berlin, has long been a tourist hotspot — and a photo with one ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the fourth installment in a five-part series excerpted from William F. Buckley Jr.’s The Fall of the Berlin Wall. The third installment is here, the second is here; the ...

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 ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. — It was late in 1961 in Berlin, and the Soviets and East Germans had started sealing off the city and country, one of the major crises of the Cold War. “I can’t remember ...

Workers on Tuesday began removing crosses at Berlin’s former Checkpoint Charlie after a museum lost a court battle to keep the memorial to people killed at the East German border during the Cold ...

EDUARD'S HOMECOMING A Novel; By Peter Schneider, Translated from the German by John Brownjohn; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 307 pp., $25 ...

It was late in 1961 in Berlin, and the Soviets and East Germans had started sealing off the city and country, one of the major crises of the Cold War.