check point charlie

Subject: check point charlie 12/2/2011, 13:51

found this old post card of CPC. Any idea what year it would have been? German or Russian troops?

check point charlie Img001ho

Subject: Re: check point charlie 12/2/2011, 21:54

I served in Berlin (1976-78) with the RMP,I did "Check Point Charlie". I would suggest the still photograph is early 60 is'. The uniform, from the "cut" appears to be VOPO, that is East German.

Subject: Re: check point charlie 12/2/2011, 22:08

whitehorse660 wrote:: I served in Berlin (1976-78) with the RMP,I did "Check Point Charlie". I would suggest the still photograph is early 60 is'. The uniform, from the "cut" appears to be VOPO, that is East German.

I agree with Whitehorse.

The car looks like a Merc of early 60s vintage.

The uniform looks too smart to be Russian.

Subject: Re: check point charlie 29/10/2018, 16:06

I can't see the post card, why?

Subject: Re: check point charlie 27/7/2020, 13:55

Since checkpoint charlie was established in 1961 the in/out processing on the eastern side was always handled by East German border guards. Soviet soldiers on border duty you could only see at the checkpoints Alpha and Bravo and Glienicker Bridge on the way to and from Potsdam for Military Liaison Mission personal.

Wolfgang

Subject: Re: check point charlie 28/7/2020, 13:57

For anyone interested in the history of the Berlin Wall, Checkpoint Charlie by Iain McGregor is a good read - available from Amazon.

Subject: Re: check point charlie 3/2/2022, 14:00

Shelldrake

I followed this advice to Iain McGregors book and purchased a copy.
After reading the first 40 pages
(reading takes some time since it is a foreign language for me)
it seems to me McGregor is wrong in some points.

After finish the book I will come back.

Wolfgang

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