Croatia’s Past
Your decision to publish Helmut Koenig’s article on Croatia (“Balkan Surprise,” Sept. 15) was misguided. Many people feel that hasty German recognition of the Croatian state precipitated the bloody events in the former Yugoslavia. Koenig’s references to the significant German presence in Croatia today and to “old times” begs the question: “When?” Is he referring to his former visits? Or are these the “old times” when Croatia was a Nazi puppet state?
This reader, for one, refuses to spend his tourist dollars in Croatia, a country whose inhabitants have committed atrocities that have been callously ignored by the West.
BENJAMIN WARD
Los Angeles
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