Berlin
July 28th - 12:38pm
Checkpoint Charlie really strikes one as a bizarre anachronism; the street it's on (Wall Street, oddly enough, in English), looks like any other upper-midscale commercial street in Berlin, and here is this set piece from World War II. But it functioned as a border control for foreigners until 1990, a point in history that even
I can remember. From outward appearances, Berlin has done an amazing job normalizing itself.