Anne Frank betrayal book pulled after findings discredited
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#2Anne Frank is doubly sad: first you get murdered by the Nazi's, then you get milked over and over again by people trying to make a buck on your legacy.
I'm sick and tired of all these folks that effectively abuse her again and again, and in this particular case that should be doubled because not only do they hitch their wagon to her name (and fame) they also unjustly try to pinpoint the blame for her betrayal to the Germans on a particular individual in a terribly slipshod way.
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That was sarcasm, right?
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no. nothing should be ever free from questioning. else things get distorted or exaggerated over time.
It would have been enough imo if the book just had a forward that noted some of it was conjecture based on whatever info they had. No one can truly know as I imagine there was either no documentation or it got destroyed in whatever allied bombing happened.
also blaming white people for shirking responsibility is a bit rich given that term encompasses a lot of nationalities including the British and Americans who fought against the Germans who were the ones doing the geocoding.
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#7> But the book, by Canadian author Rosemary Sullivan, prompted a backlash from Jewish groups and historians. The European Jewish Congress urged publisher HarperCollins to pull its English language edition, saying it had tarnished Anne Frank's memory and the dignity of Holocaust survivors.
This seems like it is less about concerns about whether the book is true, and more that people did not want the theory to be true.
I find this trend of conflating the two very problematic.
And to be honest, even if Anne Frank was betrayed by a Jewish man to save his own family, it in no way makes the Holocaust any less horrific and in no way excuses any of the guilt of the Nazis. I think it actually makes it more tragic in that people were faced with ethical and moral choices they should never have been faced with. (Having to decide between the lives of strangers and the lives of your family is a horrendous choice)
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#8My grandmother was the last living Jew I knew who personally experienced any part the Holocaust. Her father was smart enough see the writing on the wall, and to throw whatever wealth he had at the problem of getting them out of Belgium shortly before it became impossible to do so. I'm sure there are others still alive, but she was a kid when it happened, so there can't be many.
I grew up in a community filled with old Jews, and I knew lots of people with numbers tattooed on their arms. I wonder how the narrative around the holocaust will change once there is nobody left to speak firsthand as to what happened.
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That was sarcasm, right?
It’s way too close to some narratives that are pushed in nominally-liberal but actually quite regressive parts of western societies (how can you pretend to be progressive when you’re arguing that truth is secondary if it makes some people feel bad?)
It’s like Nazi edgelords. If your sarcasm is indistinguishable from propaganda, then either you’re very bad at it, or you’re using “free speech” as a cover because you know your opinions are not acceptable. In either case, these posts do not belong in a civilised discussion.
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#10> But the book, by Canadian author Rosemary Sullivan, prompted a backlash from Jewish groups and historians. The European Jewish Congress urged publisher HarperCollins to pull its English language edition, saying it had tarnished Anne Frank's memory and the dignity of Holocaust survivors. This seems like it is less about concerns about whether the book is true, and more that people did not want the theory to be true.…
> This seems like it is less about concerns about whether the book is true, and more that people did not want the theory to be true.
Not entirely. Here's another article:
https://nltimes.nl/2022/03/22/historians-contradict-findings...