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The Freedom Memorial. The Checkpoint Charlie Museum (German: Das Mauermuseum – Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie) is a private museum in Berlin.It is named after the famous crossing point through the Berlin Wall, and was created to document the so-called "best border security system in the world" (in the words of East German general Heinz Hoffmann).
Near the location of the guard house is the Haus am Checkpoint Charlie. The "Mauermuseum - Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie" was opened on 14 June 1963 [citation needed] in the immediate vicinity of the Berlin Wall. It shows photographs and fragments related to the separation of Germany.
The street was also the first location of Rainer Hildebrandt's Mauermuseum before it moved to Haus am Checkpoint Charlie. Fall of the Wall East Berliners waiting for ...
By Barbara Erling and Kuba Stezycki. WARSAW/KRAKOW, Poland (Reuters) - When Teresa Regula arrived at Auschwitz as a 16-year-old, the first real pain she experienced was of her ears burning.
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (Reuters) -An ex-employee of major Dutch computer chip equipment maker ASML held on suspicion of stealing and selling corporate secrets to a Russian buyer also had contact ...
Rainer Hildebrandt (December 14, 1914, in Stuttgart – January 9, 2004, in Berlin) was a German anti-communist resistance fighter, historian and founder of the Checkpoint Charlie Museum. He was involved in the resistance to the communist regime of the Soviet occupation zone since the 1940s, as a member of the Kampfgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit.
The CIA has sent the White House an unclassified email listing all new hires that have been with the agency for two years or less in an effort to comply with an executive order to downsize the ...
Berlin – a section of four segments is on display with the external exhibits of the Allied Museum along with a border guard tower and the Checkpoint Charlie guard house. On 13 February 2008, a segment of the Berlin Wall was installed in the courtyard of the U.S. Embassy Berlin on 13 February 2008, "to serve as a reminder of the past and a ...