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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 – Every Berliner knows him. And millions of tourists have taken photos with a picture of him. His faded, larger-than-life-sized portrait has loomed for 25 years over Checkpoint Charlie, the ...

BERLIN (dpa) – A row has broken out in Berlin over who actually owns the hundreds of Cold War artefacts housed in the famous “House at Checkpoint Charlie” museum, which every year attracts more than ...

A museum that features fake passports, a motorized glider, counterfeit Soviet Army uniforms, automobiles reinforced with sheet metal and concrete, an underwater bicycle motor, a homemade hot-air ...