Anne Frank betrayal book pulled after findings discredited

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Remember when this came out?
When you want to accuse someone of such a heinous crime, you better have some really solid evidence and the book didn't provide it.
Glad historians stepped up.
Anne Frank smiles in a black and white photo
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Anne Frank betrayal book pulled after findings discredited
The book claimed to have discovered who betrayed Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis.
9:13 PM · Mar 22, 2022

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60843577

A book that claimed to have solved the question of who betrayed Anne Frank has been recalled by its Dutch publisher after its findings were discredited.

The book's investigating team suggested a Jewish man called Arnold van den Bergh was responsible for her and her family's arrests during World War Two.

But since it was published in January, the work has been widely criticised.

Now a new report by a team of World War Two experts and historians has said its research does not stand up to scrutiny.

Anne Frank was a Jewish girl who wrote a diary about her two years in hiding before she died in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945.

The book - called The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation - said Jewish notary Van den Bergh had probably given up the Franks' hiding location to save his own family.

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[Behind the Aegis]

1. I am sure many are just crushed.

Well, back to the drawing board, after all there were more Jews there, so one of them is likely the guilty party.

[left-of-center2012]

2. Why wasn't good research done before publication?

I guess they were in a hurry to get the money before someone figured it out

[iemanja]

3. It was Harper Collins

a commercial press, so no peer review, as with academic presses.

[modrepub]

4. When That Cold Case Came Out

I kind of followed it since I was reading through the diary at the time. I think they made some good points but in the end it was just conjecture. Maybe if it had been done when more of the people involved were still alive they would have been able to follow up with their investigation.

Personally, I think that Otto Frank not pursuing how they were found in the annex is a little odd at face value. From what I could gather, he started down that road but kind of halted sometime in the early 50s. Maybe he just let it go and decided to concentrate on what his daughter wanted, to become a well know writer, which she has.

[harumph]

5. Likely much of the truth will be forever

lost. Betrayers, whoever they may be
typically go to great lengths to hide the betrayal.
Paradoxically, the holocaust really hasn't been so many years
in the past - my father was born in 1939 -
but it seems so due to the immense changes
post WWII. My son, 14, has no sense of it and
I'm trying to educate him.