Checkpoint

Far from the vibrant energy of central Berlin, in an overlooked wasteland strewn with weeds, a small part of the Berlin Wall still stands. Three decades after that notorious symbol of the Iron Curtain came crashing down, FRANCE 24 met Christian Bormann, the m…

Far from the vibrant energy of central Berlin, in an overlooked wasteland strewn with weeds, a small part of the Berlin Wall still stands. Three decades after that notorious symbol of the Iron Curtain came crashing down, FRANCE 24 met Christian Bormann, the m…

BERLIN Saturday will mark 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Wall went up virtually overnight in August of 1961. From the end of World War II and up until then, Communist East Germany lost 3.5 million people. If people continued leaving the East…

In a parallel universe in which the Berlin Wall had never fallen, Angela Merkel might today be traveling around the US in a Trabant instead of in the twilight of her chancellorship, she told German magazine Der Spiegel on Tuesday. When asked what would have …

An actor from the "Dance Factory" performing group poses at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, in a file photo provided by the group's manager Tom Luszeit. Tom Luszeit/Dance Factory Berlin — German authorities have banned actors from posing as American GIs at Ch…

Actors dressed as U.S. soldiers at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin have been banned from the iconic Cold War location because of their aggressive and abusive way with tourists, city officials said. Passersby were literally forced to pay for a picture with the a…

Actors dressing up as US soldiers at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin have been banned for abusing tourists who refused to pay donations for photographs. The fake border guards were said to be making up to £4,200 a day from visitors wanting a souvenir snapshot f…

Authorities in Berlin have banned a group of actors from wearing U.S. Army uniforms at Checkpoint Charlie, the famous Cold War-era crossing that divided the city and was heavily guarded by Soviet and American troops. Officials said the actors from the group …

Portion of the Berlin Wall in the city center on October 31, 2019, in Berlin, Germany. (Photo ... credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Getty Images On November 9, thirty years will have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Since its constructi…

And then, in the summer of 1989, things changed. Suddenly, I was no longer the only person on the train. In fact, I was surrounded by Hungarians and Poles because their governments had, for the first time, given them freedom to travel to the West. I got so ex…