Historical sign at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin
by Patricia Hofmeester
Title
Historical sign at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin
Artist
Patricia Hofmeester
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Old sign at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin
Checkpoint Charlie, along with Glienicker Brücke (Glienicke Bridge) was the best known border crossing during the Cold War. The sign, which became a symbol of the division of Cold War Berlin and read like a dire warning to those about to venture beyond the Wall – "YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR" – in English, Russian, French and German - stood here. It is today an iconic marker of territorial boundary and political division. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, it signified the border between West and East, Capitalism and Communism.
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