Freedom Memorial, Cautionary monument at Wall Museum, Berlin, Germany

The Freedom Memorial is a site with crosses near Checkpoint Charlie, commemorating people who died attempting to cross the Berlin Wall. Information panels in several languages are displayed to document specific events and personal stories from the Berlin Wall period.

Alexandra Hildebrandt founded the memorial in 2004 on an empty plot to honor victims of East German border forces. Following legal disputes with the landowner, the crosses were removed in 2005, sparking debates about private and public commemoration.

The memorial was a private installation by Alexandra Hildebrandt's Arbeitsgemeinschaft 13. August, set on a leased vacant lot by the Checkpoint Charlie Museum. It drew both praise from GDR victims and criticism from Berlin officials, who called it historically and symbolically inaccurate and objected that no public process preceded it.

The memorial no longer exists: the crosses and 120 wall segments were cleared by bailiffs on 5 July 2005, so nothing of it remains at Checkpoint Charlie. The empty lot it occupied lay near the original course of the Berlin Wall, beside the Checkpoint Charlie Museum, which Alexandra Hildebrandt also directed.

The memorial was made of 120 original Wall segments painted white, with 1,067 crosses in front of them. When bailiffs cleared the site on 5 July 2005, some protesters chained themselves to the crosses, briefly delaying the eviction.