Still sensitive
Sir: Jan Morris's article ('Long live Karl the Good', 29 June) is, in my opinion, below the standard of The Spectator. In Germany, only charwomen pay attention to royal highness- es. In my home town, Hamburg, we greeted even the Kaiser as our equal, and Hitler paid scarcely any attention to Hamburg — the town which Churchill bombed in 1943, killing about 35,000 civilians, among them 8,000 children, mostly fried in the fires. When your writers tell such stories about Germany, the barbarian attitude of the Limeys creeps up in our memory. In 1945 there was absolutely no reason to unload all your bombs on Dresden, Wilrzburg (a Red Cross town), Potsdam, Hildesheim and more, I cannot mention all. Some of us are still very sensitive when Ger- many is mentioned.
Gerhard Lorenz
D-30559 Hannover, Muthesiusweg 27, Germany
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