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\nMemorial<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The Point Alpha Memorial is an authentic scene of the Cold War and a unique testimony to four decades of contemporary history. This is where the outposts of NATO and the Warsaw Pact faced each other until 1990. The former “Observation Post Alpha” (Point Alpha for short) was one of the most important observation posts of the U.S. Armed Forces in Europe and one of the hottest spots in the Cold War.<\/p>\n

Point Alpha presents this piece of German-German history in a visible, tangible, and comprehensible way: the confrontation of the two power blocs, the construction of the border installations with their security elements, but also military procedures as well as life on, and with the border from the perspective of the population.<\/p>\n

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