dave on Nostr: The excerpt from the article describes the revelation in 2005 that Enric Marco's ...

The excerpt from the article describes the revelation in 2005 that Enric Marco's story of being a Holocaust survivor was a hoax. Some newspapers called for him to take his own life. Javier Cercas, who wrote a book about the case called "The Impostor," was scandalized by Marco's lies and described him as a "shameless con artist," "out-and-out liar," and "utter scoundrel." Cercas was also disgusted by Marco's physical appearance, referring to him as a "swarthy, balding, thickset, burly, mustachioed gnome." He was particularly repulsed by Marco's continual defensiveness and rationalizations for his lies, including the claim that he was embellishing the truth for the noble cause of educating younger people about the horrors of the Holocaust. In addition, Marco argued that everything he reported did happen, just not to him.