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The Berlin border crossings were border crossings created as a result of the post- World War II division of Germany. Prior to the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, travel between the Eastern and Western sectors of Berlin was completely uncontrolled, although restrictions were increasingly introduced by the Soviet and East German ...
Crossing the border by rail at Oebisfelde railway station, April 1990. The GDR did not encourage emigration, perhaps not surprisingly considering that the inner German border fortifications and Berlin Wall had been erected specifically to stop emigration. There was no formal legal basis under which a citizen could emigrate from the country.
Checkpoint Charlie. Coordinates: 52°30′27″N 13°23′25″E. Well-known crossing point in the Berlin Wall; now a museum. A view of Checkpoint Charlie in 1963, from the American sector. Map of Berlin Wall with location of Checkpoint Charlie. Checkpoint Charlie (or " Checkpoint C ") was the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East ...
The Bornholmer Straße border crossing was one of the border crossings between East Berlin and West Berlin between 1961 and 1990. The crossing was named after the street on which it is located, Bornholmer Straße ("Bornholm Street"), which in turn was named after the Danish Baltic Sea island of Bornholm. The actual border between East and West ...
Within the inner security zone, the Schutzstreifen, a further 743 people (15%) were arrested by the border guards. 48 people (1%) were stopped – i.e. killed or injured – by landmines and 43 people (0.9%) by SM-70 directional mines on the border fence. A further 67 people (1.35%) were intercepted at the border fence (shot and/or arrested).
T. Tränenpalast. Categories: Berlin Wall. Border crossings of Germany. Border crossings of divided cities. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
Map showing the Berlin border and its crossing points. Checkpoint Bravo ("Checkpoint B") was the name given by the Western Allies to the main Autobahn border crossing point between West Berlin and the German Democratic Republic. It was known in German as Grenzübergangsstelle Drewitz-Dreilinden. Drewitz is a community nearby, and Dreilinden is ...
Between 1950 and 1988, around four million East Germans migrated to the West; 3.454 million left between 1950 and the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. After the border was fortified and the Berlin Wall constructed, the number of illegal crossings fell dramatically and continued to fall as the defences were improved over the subsequent ...