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At Checkpoint Charlie

OBJECT INFORMATION

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June 23 1990
Berlin, Friedrichstraße border crossing (Checkpoint Charlie)
Created By: Dagmar Lipper

License: Creative Commons License

Traffic at the former Friedrichstraße border crossing (Checkpoint Charlie); the Café Adler building in the background

Depicts

café, car, crane, German flag, guard room, street, tollgate

Places

Checkpoint Charlie

Text in image

Apotheke / [...]

Café Adler

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Original Caption

"The little guard house at Checkpoint Charlie was still standing on 4 June. It was then demolished on 22 June. On the 23 June we drove through the checkpoint towards East Berlin for the first time – only foreigners and East Germans had been allowed through it up until then."