Berlin's city council wants to get rid of a memorial at the site of Checkpoint Charlie, a security gate on the Berlin Wall. Hundreds of black crosses represent those killed trying to escape East ...

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. The ...

Many say a visit to the Checkpoint Charlie border crossing should not come without a visit to the Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, or the Checkpoint Charlie Museum. Checkpoint Charlie was the most popular ...

It was the most determined show of U.S. strength since the Berlin crisis began, but staged belatedly, over a narrow issue. If one U.S. bulldozer had been at work on Aug. 13 to stop East Germany when ...

Critics say Checkpoint Charlie has become a tourist trap crowded by souvenir shops, tour buses and fast-food restaurants in the 30 years since the Berlin Wall came down. Some say it has been ...

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 what day it was. We were ...

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 ...

BERLIN – BERLIN (AP) — Checkpoint Charlie's lesser-known Cold War contemporary, Allied Checkpoint Bravo, has been sold at auction for the minimum bid price of €45,000 ($58,000) to an anonymous ...

Berlin — German authorities have banned actors from posing as American GIs at Checkpoint Charlie, the historic U.S.-controlled border crossing between communist East and West Berlin. Tourists had ...

Charlie’s learning German at school, and practising online with some children in Berlin. They introduce themselves and show him around some of the city’s most famous sites. This film could be used for ...

BERLIN — For all Berlin’s attractions, it is a small, wooden shack that tops the must-see lists of many tourists here. The former guard house stands behind a row of sandbags at a busy intersection in ...

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 what day it ...