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[–]ShalomEveryone[S] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (7 children)

  • The Jewish diarist died in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945, aged 15, after two years in hiding.

  • A team including an ex-FBI agent said Arnold van den Bergh, a Jewish figure in Amsterdam, probably "gave up" the Franks to save his own family.

  • Van den Bergh had been a member of Amsterdam's Jewish Council, a body forced to implement Nazi policy in Jewish areas. It was disbanded in 1943, and its members were dispatched to concentration camps.

  • "When van den Bergh lost all his series of protections exempting him from having to go to the camps, he had to provide something valuable to the Nazis that he's had contact with to let him and his wife at that time stay safe," former FBI agent Vince Pankoke told CBS 60 Minutes.

  • In the files of a previous investigator, they found a copy of an anonymous note sent to Otto Frank identifying Arnold van den Bergh as his betrayer.

  • Mr Pankoke told 60 Minutes that anti-Semitism may have been the reason it was never made public.

  • "But we have to keep in mind that the fact that [van den Bergh] was Jewish just meant that he was placed into an untenable position by the Nazis to do something to save his life."

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[–]iDontShift 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

some about pens hadn't been invented yet

[–]ShalomEveryone[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

lol, it's been a while since I've read that white supremacist lie about Anne's diary.

The origin of the “ballpoint myth” is the four-page report that the Federal Criminal Police Office (the Bundeskriminalamt or BKA) in Wiesbaden, which was published in 1980. In this investigation into the types of paper and ink used in the diary of Anne Frank it is stated that “ballpoint corrections” had been made on some loose sheets. The BKA’s task was to report on all the texts found among the diaries of Anne Frank, and therefore also on the annotations that were made in Anne’s manuscripts after the war.

In short: the “ballpoint myth” is easy to disprove. The careless wording of the BKA report from 1980 – a report that for the rest in no way challenges the authenticity of the diary – or at any rate its openness to several interpretations, has taken on a life of its own in extreme right-wing circles.

The “ballpoint myth” is based on the simple fact that, around 1960, two annotation sheets with ballpoint writing were inserted between the original pages. These texts were written by a graphological researcher, and are not included in any edition of the diary (apart from the Critical Edition, where photos of the annotation sheets are reproduced). In July 2006, the BKA found it necessary to state in a press release that the 1980 investigation cannot be used to call the authenticity of the diary into doubt.

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[–]JoeyJoeJoe 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Thank you for taking the time to refute the ballpoint story with some credible evidence. I had heard the anecdote (with no evidence) but it's always been on my "maybe" list of possibilities in the back of my mind. Thanks for helping clean out the rubbish. 😁👍

[–]ShalomEveryone[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

No problem, it's funny how people want to discredit Anne Frank and the holocaust as a whole. There are a lot of holocaust deniers on this site.

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[–]iDontShift 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

jew supremacists lie that they are God's chosen people over others

yeah, this part says fuck off, and fuck off even harder calling me a supremacist .. hypocritical fucktard

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

nah it was true that pen didn't exist yet

[–]Check_Check 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The whole diary was fake. That's why the two real authors sued each other over the profits, in typical jewish fashion.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

fake news. She never existed, a guy wrote the diary.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The Dutch fucked up so much in obeying the nazi orders on Jews. Even France managed to refuse to send their own citizens. The Danish did best though, all other countries should learn from what they did when they had terrible laws forced on them.

[–]chadwickofwv 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It was you wasn't it?

[–]filbs111 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

What's sick is that they named a young girl after something you do when looking at lewd pictures on the internet.

[–]ShalomEveryone[S] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

She was named before the internet was invented.

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