Berlin has just unveiled a Cold War exhibition at the old Checkpoint Charlie border crossing — a step toward setting up a permanent museum about the standoff between East and West. The BlackBox Cold War exhibition uses posters, newspapers, videos and other artifacts to narrate the conflict from Germany’s post-World War II division to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Supporters hope to complete a larger, permanent museum at the site in 2015 or 2016. Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit says the checkpoint — where U.S. and Soviet tanks faced off in 1961 — “is the only place worldwide where both superpowers directly faced each other with weapons and the danger of a hot war was palpable.”
Details: For information about visiting Berlin, see www.visitberlin.de/en.
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