Historian Paco Ignacio Taibo II wrote the book " Coffee, Spies, Lovers, and Nazis " "to illustrate that a 24-year-old neo-Nazi in Mexico today doesn't know who his grandparents were, and that they were horrible ; we record that here," he said yesterday during the presentation of the book, which was given to those in attendance.
At the Mexico City Museum, the narrator stated that the world where this fascism reigned "seems so distant to us, and in fact, it is so tremendously distant "; however, he continues here .
He added that when the Brigade to Read in Freedom asked him for a text on Nazism, he remembered this document and gave it to them free of charge "to follow the tradition of the approximately 15 books for which I have not collected royalties."
The book will be distributed free of charge at upcoming editions of the Zócalo Book Fair near you, the next edition of which will be held in Tulyehualco.
The presentation was also attended by Paloma Sáiz, director of the Zócalo International Book Fair and member of the Brigade to Read in Freedom, and Argel Gómez, director of Major Community Festivals of Mexico City.
Paco Ignacio Taibo II said that while preparing the novel " Retornamos como sombras" (We Return as Shadows), he began to wonder where the characters came from. His curiosity led him to make surprising discoveries, such as that of Hilda Krüger, an unsuccessful actress in Hollywood who has ties to the highest echelons of Nazism in Germany .
