This private walking tour brings you to the places, where famous events of the Cold War happened and history was written. On this tour you will also see original pieces of the Wall, one of the last remaining guard towers and Checkpoint Charlie.The tour starts at the Berlin Wall Documentation Center in the street \"Bernauer Strasse\", where many of the dramatic escape attempts took place, successful and tragic ones. You will ride one of the subways that were called \"ghost trains\" during the division of the city, so-called because of the gloomy atmosphere in the underground stations close to the wall. The tour also covers Checkpoint Charlie, the former military checkpoint and hot spot of the Cold War. This is the site where the fate of mankind was hanging by a thread in 1961 when US and Soviet tanks confronted each other.