Checkpoint Charlie

According to the German blog "David's Medienkritik," the Berlin city government plans to bulldoze down the Checkpoint Charlie monument.

On July 4, no less.

Is there any possibility that this is true? Are German politicians so cynical and self-absorbed, are Americans so ignorant and careless, that this could actually happen?

What am I missing? To the extent that the Cold War had a Ground Zero, Checkpoint Charlie was it. The Third Reich stood for little more than a decade. The scientific system which was destined to "bury" the West lasted for less than a century. Surely Checkpoint Charlie must be preserved for a thousand years.