Front Page Picture in Berlin Observer, 22. juni 1990

On the day Check Point Charlie was removed. The removal of this authorized crossing point between East and West was an act that symbolized the end of the "Cold War". Check Point Charlie was the only place through which the Allies (US, British and French could cross the iron curtain into the East. Pictured are participants, from left to right: East German Foreign Minister, Herr Markus Meckel; Berlin's Mayor, Frau Ingrid Stahmer; Major General Robert Corbett, British Commandant for Berlin; Mr. Douglas Hurd, Foreign Minister of Great Britain; Major General Raymond E. Haddock, American Commandant for Berlin; Mr. James A. Baker, III, United States Secretary of State; Major General Francois Cann, French Commandant for Berlin; Monsier Roland Dumas, French Foreign Minster: Herr Hans Dietrich Genscher, German Foreign Minister; Mr. Edvard Shevardnadze, Soviet Union Foreign Minister; East Berlin's Mayor, Mr. Tino Schwierzina.