Anne Frank betrayal suspect identified after 77 years

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