Wall Museum - Checkpoint Charlie

In commemoration of the history of the Berlin Wall, the German government collected photographs and documents of the wall and the fugitives after the construction of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961. The museum is situated at the checkpoint where travelers from West Berlin had to pass to East Berlin.

The Berlin Wall Museum, right next to Charlie's border checkpoint, has visited the Berlin Wall Park, where it was not accessible due to time constraints, but the picture exhibition board outside is shocking enough.

The Berlin Wall, officially known as the Anti-Fascist Defense Wall, is a German Democratic Republic (“Democratic Germany” or “East Germany”) border system established on its own territory around the border with West Berlin, with the aim of preventing the Democratic Germany (including the capital East Berlin) and the Federal Republic of Germany. Free movement of people between West Berlin, which belongs to the Federal Germany or West Germany. The Berlin Wall was built on August 13, 1961, and is 155 kilometers long. Originally built on barbed wire and masonry as a material, the border guards were reinforced by watchtowers, concrete walls, open zones and anti-vehicle trenches. The Berlin Wall is a symbol of Germany's division and an important landmark of the Cold War.

The latter Berlin was divided into two: West Berlin under Western occupation and East Berlin under Soviet occupation. There was a dividing line between the two, which blocked the ground exchanges between East and West Berlin. A year later, in May 1955, the CIA, in cooperation with British intelligence, dug a tunnel from the nearest US radar station in the Ruhr area to the Soviet occupation area, and the tunnel crossed the dividing line to extend to the Soviet occupation area, a total length of 500 meters. Direct access to an underground cable center in the Soviet Union and Democratic Germany. After the success of the plan, the CIA could receive at least 4,000 meters of text-type tapes from the Soviet side and record thousands of phone calls a day. Long before the tunnel was dug, the KGB reported the news to a "mole" of British intelligence. However, in order to preserve the mole, it was not until a year later that the KGB publicly disclosed the matter, and the timing was very conducive to a sensational effect, namely, on April 22, 1956, when Khrushchev made a state visit to Britain.

The first person to cross the Berlin Wall, East German border guard Conrad Schumer, was the first person to cross the Berlin Wall at midnight on August 13, 1961, and East Germany blocked the border line around West Berlin. By August of the same year, nearly 2,000 people had left East Germany every day. To prevent the loss of economic power and Kochi expertise, East Germany quickly built a barbed wire fence along the border, which was later reinforced into the Berlin Wall. There he paced nervously, smoking cigarettes, and occasionally pulling a barbed wire fence two feet high, but could this wall really stop people's desire for freedom? Just two days after the barbed wire was erected, 18-year-old East German police officer Conrad Schuman was ordered to patrol the corner of Bernaur and Luping streets. He paced back and forth nervously, and his behavior quickly caught the attention of many photographers on the border, including 19-year-old Peter Lebin. The West Berliners shouted at him: Come here, Schumann started quickly, deftly flipped over the barbed wire Berliners shouted at him: Come here, Schumann started quickly, deftly flipped over the barbed wire about 4pm, Schumann flipped off his cigarette. The West Berliners shouted at him: Come here! Schumann quickly started, deftly flipped over the barbed wire, and a waiting West German police car hurried him off, and his body fell to the ground. A photographer named Lebin captured the jump with 16mm film. His photographs made Schumann a celebrity, making him the first East German soldier to overturn the Berlin Wall. After leaving East Germany, Schumer could only contact his family by letter to the west, and later settled in Bavaria, formed a family and worked on an Audi assembly line for 27 years. On June 20, 1998, he left no words and went into the woods near his house to hang himself and ended his life. He had not received a penny from that classic photo before. On November 2, 2008, Lebin, who took the jump, died. Although Schuman's personal story ends in tragedy, the photograph was always one of the most powerful images documenting the Cold War.