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3 unusual facts about Checkpoint Charlie


Checkpoint Charlie

A side-mission in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is titled "Checkpoint Charlie", which involves using a boat to collect drug packages within a time limit.

British spy James Bond (played by Roger Moore) passed through Checkpoint Charlie in the 1983 film Octopussy from the West of Germany to the east.

British Leyland made a German television advert, featuring an Austin Maxi based on a true story of a couple who defected to the West at Checkpoint Charlie in the boot of a Maxi.


Allied Museum

Some of the largest objects in the permanent collection are presented in the open-air exhibition space and include a British Handley Page Hastings transport plane, a railway carriage from a French military train, the guard house from the famous border crossing point Checkpoint Charlie and a GDR watchtower.


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