Checkpoint Charlie

The Checkpoint Charlie is the most famous border crossing of the Berlin Wall between 1945 and 1990. It is located on Friedrichstraße, and opened the way to the control area with the Soviet U.S., where currently linking the districts of Mitte and Kreuzberg.

Charlie The name comes from the NATO phonetic alphabet, and is its third letter. Checkpoint Alpha was the passage of highway in Helmstedt, Checkpoint Bravo highway passing Dreilinden.