Angry at Lubeck

I read about Lubeck (“Germany’s Belle of the Baltic,” Aug. 18) and the Veterans of Lubeck letter by Richard F. Gauthier (Sept. 15), to whom it brought back happy memories.

For me it reminded me of 1941, when my brother Joop, who worked with the Dutch underground resistance in Holland, was taken prisoner and shipped in a cattle railroad car to a concentration camp in Lubeck. After four years being there, barely surviving, he was freed by the American soldiers.

I read his diary, and he told me about the atrocities committed by the Germans of Lubeck. He later died from colon cancer--according to the doctors, as a result of what they did to him in the camp. So in my opinion, Lubeck will never be that beautiful!

HANK KRASTMAN

Chatsworth