The tour through the permanent exhibition of the Allied Museum takes the visitor through both museum buildings and the open-air grounds. The exhibition is organised chronologically, and starts with the moment the three Western Powers marched into their Berlin sectors after the German defeat in the Second World War. The exhibition ends with the common euphoria over the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of both German states in October 1990. In between these two historical markers, a wealth of exhibition items - supplemented by video and computer stations - reveals how the three occupying Powers transformed first into protective Powers and then finally became into friends over a period of five decades. The round trip passes through the denazification process of the initial post-war period, goes by a coal depot for the Berlin Airlift which was the first great test in the East-West conflict, leads by the Berlin Wall and Checkpoint Charlie, proceeds under a British spy plane and straight to the American spy tunnel, and eventually brushes up against the French sector of Berlin.
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Guard tower, Section of Berlin Wall  |
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Checkpoint Charlie  |
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