German author of Ho Chi Minh book visits Vietnam
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Hellmut Kapfenberger, a German journalist and author of “Ho Chi Minh – a chronicle,” a book published in Vietnam last year, was in Hanoi Thursday for a book signing.
The book starts with the question “Who is Ho Chi Minh?” and tries to answer it in 25 chapters. The author concludes that “Ho Chi Minh” has become a concept of ideology, epoch, culture, and morality.
The 77-year-old said at the signing: “I have known about Vietnam since 1960 through the war between America and Vietnam. It was obvious I would know about Ho Chi Minh along with this country. However, many Germans do not know Ho Chi Minh. I decide no one should forget him.”
Kapfenberger lived and worked in Vietnam as a correspondent for the News Agency of the German Democratic Republic from 1970 to 1973 and again from 1980-to 1984.
He spent two years writing “Ho Chi Minh - A chronicle” which was published by Verlag Neues Leben publishing house in Berlin in 2009. It was translated into Vietnamese and published by the The Gioi (World) Publishing House last May.
