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This outdoor exhibition displays information to visitors on three different topics.

The photo gallery at Checkpoint Charlie was conceived and realized by the Berliner Forum für Geschichte und Gegenwart e. The exhibition aims to interest visitors in seeing these other sites and in taking a closer look at these issues and events. What began as a simple sentry booth was gradually expanded to become a nine-lane border control installation. V. on behalf of the Senate Department for Education, Science and Culture Opened in the summer of 2006, this exhibition along Friedrichstrasse, Zimmerstrasse, and Schützenstrasse gives visitors free information on three different topics. The photos take visitors back to October 1961, for instance, when Soviet and American tanks faced off against one another on Friedrichstrasse. The gallery’s eastern wall describes the events that took place at the former border crossing and explores the significance of the Allies’ Checkpoint Charlie as a site symbolizing the international confrontation between blocs.

The western gallery wall on Friedrichstrasse tells the story of many both failed and successful escape attempts at this border crossing, and illustrates the constant changes the checkpoint underwent from 1961 to 1989 as it was made ever more secure.

The adjacent gallery walls on Zimmerstrasse give visitors an overview of the most important memorial sites, remaining sections of the actual Wall, and museums and documentation centers focusing on divided Germany and the Berlin Wall.

Click on the place marker for directions to the remaining section of the Berlin Wall at the Checkpoint Charlie outdoor exhibition

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Just outside Berlin, over 50,000 innocent victims of the Nazis perished in Sachsenhausen in conditions of appalling brutality. The camp became a training ground for the execution of the Holocaust and ultimately the center of the whole concentration camp system. After the Nazis were defeated, the Soviets turned the camp into a gulag for their own political enemies. Thousands more were to perish over the next five years.

For the SS (Schutztaffel officers). It ended up as the center of the entire concentration camp system.

Click on the place marker to find directions to the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp