Wall Museum - House at Checkpoint Charlie
Friedrichstraße 43-45
10969 Berlin
Postal address:
Postfach 61 02 26
10923 Berlin
Telephone: +49 (0)30 25 37 25-0
Fax: +49 (0)30 251 20 75
Wall Museumhttp://www.mauermuseum.de
The legendary Checkpoint Charlie was the best-known transit between West- and East-Berlin. Here, in October 1961, American and Soviet tanks were opposite to each other; many flights were successful while others failed on the verge of the white demarcation line. On August 17, 1962, Peter Fechter bled to death at the death strip.
The Mauermuseum - Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie (Wall Museum - Museum House at Checkpoint Charlie), founded by Rainer Hildebrandt in 1962, documents the incidents at this place, the story of the divided city and the construction of the wall, as well as the world-wide non-violent fight for human rights.
At the exhibition, is gets shown, with photos, how the GDR border protection system was built bit by bit and how it was brought to perfection. Though, numerous original objects do also document, what people thought of to overcome the wall. One can see cars reconstructed for the flight, a mini submarine which drew a refugee through the Baltic Sea, hot-air balloons, and self-made motor kites.
Related Topics
Berlin Wall, Checkpoint Charlie, Cold War, Construction of the Wall, Escape, Human Rights, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Rescue Operation
