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Sabine Reithmaier
They would have had enough time, as well as opportunities to escape. But Klaus and Monika Merton, a young German-Jewish couple, miss every opportunity to save themselves from the National Socialists by going abroad. They don’t want to accept how political reality is getting worse, they talk about morality and humanism and wait and see. Until it’s too late Grete Weil’s first novel about these two protagonists, “The way to the border”, previously unpublished and now published by CH Beck-Verlag, is a painful book. Because despite all the alienation and fiction, the writer not only processes the grief for the loss of her husband Edgar Weil, but also deals with her own mistakes.