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Checkpoint Charlie Museum

A brochure giving a few details on the Museum

"My first stop the next day was the Checkpoint Charlie Museum
It was a very messy museum but my favourite parts where the stories of people's escapes

There were people in cut out suitcases and people in speakers being used for concerts
Babies in shopping trolleys too
In cars, there were cut out chassis and false bottom boots - they would put tennis balls
in the suspension coils to stop the car riding low and therefore looking suspicious

There was also a guy who cut out the inside of the drivers seat of his car and put his girlfriend
in there and then covered it back out and then sat on her and drove back through

My fave though was the man whose wife was on the other side
He started dating a girl who looked like her and then they went over the wall
and he stole her papers and brought his wife back out using them
He got nine months in jail for depriviation of liberty but who cares!!"