Checkpoint Charlie: What Was It Like To Use The Cold War Crossing? | Forces TV

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Thirty years have passed since one of the Cold War’s most potent symbols was dismantled. Checkpoint Charlie was the third crossing point into East Berlin from the West, along the infamous Berlin Wall. We've been looking back at what the checkpoint was actually like, until it was taken apart in 1990.

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