European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Profile the Price of survival in Hitler s Germany byed Reavis Stalf writer Ingeborg Hetchl Dills herself Lucky. After Reading her Book. Invisible Walls one realizes How relative the term Lucky can be. Hochl survived the third Reich in Germany As a so called  but she paid a Price for survival. The Price was thai i Wai unable to leave the House for 33 years agoraphobia says the last sentence of her Book which appeared in English and German about a year ago. Hecht did her writing As a journalist and author from her Home in Freiburg. Friends shopped for her the Hairdresser came to her apartment. She wrote books about her new environment in Southern Germany and about witchcraft in the area. The dangers of the third Reich were Over but my brother and i still suffer from an enormous feeling of guilt Quill about not having done enough to help my father escape death in Auschwitz Hetchl said. I first left the House after All those years Ai the urging of my publisher in Hamburg Hoffmann and Campe to attend a reception held i n Honor of my Book writing the Book was a kind of therapy and made it possible for me to overcome my fears and make the trip by car with friends. It was virtually a return to the world in tha 19bos." later she was Noble to make the trip to Amsterdam to receive the Anne Frank medal and even endure three Days at the annual Frankfurt Book fair. Bui gelling out it still not the easiest thing for her to do. Corn in 1921, Hetchl was raised in Hamburg s Well to do residential Harves Lehuede Section. Her Motherway born Offerman royally her father was a German jewish lawyer and decorated world War i Veteran. They were Able to afford everything parents could want for their children governess Cook private school. In 193s lightning struck in the form of Hitler s Nurnberg race Laws for the Protection of German  they wrought disastrous changes in the lives Offerman jews. Through Hecht s Book the Reader learns a new vocabulary taken from the racists dictionary half jew Veltung Juden christians who converted to Judaism upon marriage privileged mix marriage first class half Breed terms that Call to mind similar racist classifications used in South Africa today and the United states of yesteryear oct Oroon Quad Roon Etc. For my brother and me the race Laws were a great Shock. We were systematically excluded from Public life then they sought after our lives. Looking Back 1 can see How naive we were politically. We were not raised in any political tradition such As the youth of the social democrats or the White Rose resistance group who i greatly Admire. We could t even imagine the logical consequences of the Hitler  Hetchl s Book dramatically illustrates How those race jaws permeated every aspect of private life. She demonstrates How they affected her family through a mosaic of perfidious stages of  my brother was forced to leave the Hamburg sports club our hiking club was disbanded. Life became very limited. Fear grew with the knowledge of what the nazis were really up  among some the Laws quoted by Hecht Are the Laws that forbade inter marriage Between jews and germans and Type related races forbade tag Borg Hucht author a invisible  extramarital relations Between the jews and germans ordained that Only aryans were cil Wens of the German Reich forbade lews to work As lawyers professors use archives use aryan shops establishments or clubs. Hetchl and her brother Wolfgang were 12 and 14 years old respectively when the race Laws were passed. The Hecht parents were separated shortly before Hitler s Ascendancy to Power but Mother and father remained friends. Forced by circumstances to share an apartment the parents were under constant stress of  by neighbors. In i lie end her father was sent to ther Eisenstadt Czechoslovakia Lii n murdered in Auschwitz. Hecht describes in her Book i hi.1 vague possibility of obtaining false papers for the father after Hamburg was firebombed in 1943 but he refused for fear of putting he family in . Today when i have readings from my Book Young germans Are awed and outraged at the taws and feel either ashamed or angry at the race  books for the trip or armchair travel by Linda White travel editor travellers who have their eyes on Points East have some new guides and a reissue Al their disposal. The venerable Blue guide series has just published Istanbul a $18.95 9.95 pounds in the . For Clear concise information you can t go wrong with this Book. It contains a general history Book review of the City plus historic background sight by sight. Maps and diagrams Are abundant. The suggested itineraries unravel the labyrinth of the City. The discussions of Byz Allne and ottoman architecture and Art Are especially helpful to explorers of the City s treasures. A glossary of architectural terms covers everything from the common Lintel to the mum Lane the House of a mosque astronomer the Standard information about passport control and customs hotels restaurants and language is compactly organised in the front of the Book. For sightseeing the City is divided into a number of routes the first one Start ing with the Galala Bridge focal Point of Istanbul s colourful and turbulent daily  the chapters following Are devoted to the Saghia Sophia top nil Sara i the Market Quarter the Stamboul Shore of the Golden Horn the bosporus Etc. Blue guides Are available in Many English language bookshops the publisher is , Black 35 Bedford Row London wc1r4jh. Guide to Cairo is a slim volume by Michael Haag obviously a labor of love. Ii is no just a guide to Cairo but the Story of Cairo As Well. Frequent margin notations of what is included in the text make the Book easy to use the Nar Raltie makes it interesting. Practical information is put at the end of each chapter giving such Essen liars As bus numbers where museum guides and Cata logs can be purchased whether cameras can be taken into museums Elc. Maps Are not the Book s Strong Point but it does provide useful diagrams of museums and pyramids. In Back is a glossary and  Lor any traveler a table of numbers. The Book Sells for $9.95 or 5,95 pounds ii is available in English language bookshops distributed by feb Lias Glenside Industrial estate Star Road Partridge Green Horsham w. Sussex Rhu Sld England. Haag has also reissued , Forster s classic Alexandria a history and guide with an introduction by Lawrence Durrell in fact Haag s notes in the Back turn the Book into a guide through Durrell s Alexandria quartet As Well. The first edition was printed in 1922, and though Durrell notes there Are changes for the worse in the City the Book is still a valid guide and a wonderful read. It is divided into to parts history first to Well know what we re seeing with references to in appropriate pages in the guide Section. There is ,1 list of changes in Street and place names. Forster was trapped by War n Alexandria and he loved in. The Book is As honest and romantic As Only someone who loved the City could write the City s failings Are not glossed Over and they make in believable and fascinating. For example. Fowler writes about the Greco roman museum the collection was not formed until 1801, by which Lime most of the Antiques in the neighbourhood had passed into private hands. Chi visitor who goes through ii will find afterwards that it has gone through him and that he is my Svith nothing but a vague memory of  and he suggests that visitors learn first about the City s history look Only for certain objects and then go away a Golden Rule indeed in All  the Book Sells for 11.95 pounds about $18. 20 gripes Mauine mirch26,1987