„It’s exciting that you come from a country that no longer exists“, another child said to Magdalena Kirchner when she was five years old. Kirchner’s family had just left the GDR. The application to leave had been approved for Nov. 11, 1989 of all days. And so, shortly after the fall of the Wall, she ended up in an emergency reception camp in Giessen, Hesse. At the time, nobody knew what this event would mean for the future of Germany and Europe.