1st Aug 09 13:25
This is a hot air balloon used by two families to escape over the wall to the west in 1979. It is from the checkpoint charlie museum right in the centre of berlin.
1st Aug 09 13:04
This is checkpoint charlie nowadays. You can see how different it is from how it would have been even in the late eighties. This is from the west side of the checkpoint.
1st Aug 09 09:36
Reconstruction of the wall at the berlin wall documentation centre with the TV tower, a great power symbol for the east, in the backdrop.