While there are hundreds of military museums around the world, Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, or the Checkpoint Charlie Museum, is one of few memorials that expressly document the tyrannical force of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The city of Berlin has approved a plan to transform historical landmark Checkpoint Charlie into a public square, complete with Cold War museum. During the Cold War, Checkpoint Charlie was a point ...

Here at Checkpoint Charlie, where Soviet and American tanks once aimed at each other separated by 30 yards, Cold War tensions are still running high. An international group of scholars, backed by ...

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

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 ...

A 66-year-old German museum director has given birth to her 10th child. Alexandra Hildebrandt, the head of the private Checkpoint Charlie Museum in central Berlin, confirmed to dpa on Tuesday that her ...

Erika Kirk Takes On the Podcast Conspiracy-Mongers with Grace The Checkpoint Charlie Museum seems suited for tourists, and the air-raid ruins of a church convey memory exhaustion and mixed signals.

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 ...

During the summer months in Berlin, thousands of tourists wearing flip-flops emerge from the U-Bahn stop near Checkpoint Charlie. Wide-eyed, they stroll down Friedrichstrasse before stumbling into a ...