From Alice in Wonderland to walking the dog: Germans recall fall of Berlin Wall

Dagmar Simdorn, a 81 year-old East German pensioner, which lives at Acker Strasse is pictured in her apartment near the Berlin Wall memorial in Berlin, Germany, October 22, 2019. On November 9th Germany will mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (Berliner Mauer) in 1989. Picture taken October 22, 2019. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

BERLIN (Reuters) - Dagmar Simdorn had been to visit her husband's grave when she walked out of the cemetery and looked along her street towards the austere Berlin Wall checkpoint at Bernauer Strasse. There was an opening.

Walking the short distance along the street in East Berlin, she could see the Wall had not been completely torn down, but there were ways through. So she peered into the West.