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The Anne Frank Diary Fraud
by Brian Harring – TBR News.org
Introduction – Rixon Stewart February 22, 2006
In today’s London Times Daniel Finkelstien reflects on David Irving’s sentencing
and asks:
“The test that David Irving set me: do I really believe in the power of truth?”
The answer to that is an emphatic no. If anything Finkelstien is working in the
opposite direction. This becomes apparent half-way through the article when he
writes: “With her own eyes, my mother saw Anne Frank arrive in Belsen (she knew
the family), yet still Irving and people like him contend that Frank’s story is
fake.”
The Anne Frank story may not be an outright fake but as Brian Harring reveals in
the article below, it is an elaborate piece of story telling. However, the fact
that Finkelstien uses it to condemn Irving says all there is to say about his
detractors and Finkelsteim’s belief in the “power of truth.”
So we should be wary when Finkelstien concludes: “no David Irving should not be
in jail. We can do better than that. I wish I could tell you that the Irving
trial is the only way in which my belief in the power of truth is being tested.”
Here Finkelstiem’s apparent balance and restaint is being used as a ruse to
further beguile the reader into believing his deceit. Just as the Anne Frank
story was contrived, so Finkelstiem’s article is little more than fiction and
his concern for the "truth" an attempt to bolster its credibility.
In fact the Times itself has become a Zionist propaganda mouthpiece that often
resorts to lies to make its point. Last year it described
Israel Shamir, a former
Israeli paratrooper now a writer and political activist as
“a
Swedish-domiciled anti-Semite also known as Jöran Jermas”. Now, as revealed
below, it uses an proven fake to bolster the case against Historical
Revisionists.
The Anne Frank Diary Fraud
by Brian Harring
When Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, she did so prompted by the
highest of motives. Yet she, herself, relates the incident that when she first
met Abraham Lincoln in 1863, he commented "So you are the little woman who wrote
the book that made this great war!"
Few will deny that the printed word in this instance fanned the flames of
passion which brought about one of the bloodiest and saddest wars of American
history, with brother sometimes pitted against brother, father against son.
Perhaps if there had been less appeal to the emotions the problems might have
resolved themselves through peaceful means. However, almost universally read at
the time, few people then recognized the potency of one small book or the
injustice done the South through its wide acceptance as a fair picture of
slavery in the South.
Propaganda, as a weapon of psychological warfare is in even wider use today.
Communists were masters of the art. Often they used the direct approach; just as
often they employed diversion tactics to focus the eyes and ears of the world in
directions other than where the real conflict was being waged. For many years,
through propaganda alone, the dead threat of Hitler and Nazism had been
constantly held before the public in a diversion maneuver to keep attention from
being directed against the live threat of Stalin, Khrushchev and Communism.
Such has been the effect, if not the deliberate intention of many who have
promoted its distribution, of a book of popular appeal-The Diary Of Anne
Frank. It has been sold to the public as the actual diary of a young Jewish
girl who died in a Nazi concentration camp after two years of abuse and horror.
Many Americans have read the book or seen the movie version, and have been
deeply moved by the real life drama it claims to present. But have we been
misled in the belief that Anne Frank actually wrote this diary? And if so.
should an author be permitted to produce a work of fiction and sell it to the
world as fact, particularly one of such tremendous emotional appeal?
The Swedish journal Frio Ord published two articles commenting on The
Diary of Anne Frank. A condensation of these articles appeared in the April
15, 1959 issue of Economic Council Letter, as follows:
“History has many examples of myths that live a longer and richer life than
truth. and may become more effective than truth.
The Western world has for some years hem made aware of a young Jewish girl
through the medium of what purports to he her personally written story, "Anne
Frank's Diary." Any informed literary inspection of this book has shown it to
have been impossible as the work of a teenager.
A noteworthy decision of the New York Supreme Court confirms this point of view,
in that the well known American writer, Meyer Levin, has been awarded $50.000 to
be paid him by the father of Anne Frank as an honorarium for Levin's work on the
"Anne Frank Diary."
Mr. Frank, in Switzerland, had promised to pay to prominent Jewish author, Meyer
Levin. not less than $50,000 because he had used the literary creation of author
Levin in toto, and represented it to his publisher and the public as his late
daughter’s original work.
Inquiry of the County Clerk. New York County. as to the facts of the case
referred to in the Swedish press, brought a reply on April 23, 1962, giving the
name of a New York firm of lawyers as “attorneys .far the respondent.” Reference
was to ”The Dairy of Anne Frank 2203-58.”
A letter to this firm brought a response on May 4, 1962 that “Although we
represent Mr. Levin in other matters, we had nothing to do with the Anne Frank
case.”
On May 7, 1962, came the following reply from a member of a firm of New York
lawyers to whom the original inquiry had been forwarded:
“I was the attorney for Meyer Levin in his action against Otto Frank and others.
It is true that a jury awarded Mr. Levin $50,000 in damages, as indicated in
your letter. That award was later set aside by the trial justice. Hon. Samuel C.
Coleman. on the ground that the damages had not been proved in the manner
required by law. The action was subsequently settled between the litigating
parties, while an appeal from Judge Coleman’s decision was pending.
I am afraid that the case itself is not officially reported, so far as the trial
itself, or even Judge Coleman’s decision, is concerned. Certain procedural
matters were reported. both in 141 New York Supplement. Second Series 170. and
in 5 Second Series 181. The correct file number in the New York County Clerk‘s
office is 2241-1956 and the file is probably a large and full one which must
include Judge Coleman’s decision. Unfortunately, our file is in storage and 1
cannot locate a copy of that decision as it appeared in the New York Law Journal
early in the year 1960.”
The Diary Of Anne Frank was first published in 1952 and immediately
became a bestseller. It has been republished in paperback, 40 printings. It is
impossible to estimate how many people have been touched and aroused by the
movie production.
Why has the trial involving the father of Anne Frank, bearing directly on the
authenticity of this book, never been "officially reported"? In royalties alone,
Otto Frank has profited richly from the sale of this book, purporting to depict
the tragic life of his daughter. But is it fact, or is it fiction? Is it truth
or is it propaganda? Or is it a combination of all of these? And to what degree
does it wrongfully appeal to the emotions through a misrepresentation as to its
origin?
School publications for years have recommended this book for young people,
presenting it as the work of Anne Frank. Advertising in advance of the movie
showing has played up the “factual” nature of the drama being presented. Do not
writers of such editorials and promoters of such advertising, “fan the flames of
hate” they rightly profess to deplore?
Many American Jews were shocked at the handling of the Eichmann case, the
distortions contained in the book Exodus and its movie counterpart, but
their protests have had little publicity outside of their own organ, Issues, by
the American Council for Judaism. Others who have expressed the same convictions
have been charged with anti-Semitism. Yet it is to be noted that both Otto Frank
and his accuser Meyer Levin, were Jewish, so a similar charge would hardly be
applicable in pursuing this subject to an honest conclusion..
File number 2241-1956 in the New York County Clerk’s office should be opened to
the public view and its content thoroughly publicized. Misrepresentation,
exaggeration, and falsification has too often colored the judgment of good
citizens. If Mr. Frank used the work of Meyer Levin to present to the world what
we have been led to believe is the literary work of his daughter, wholly or in
part, then the truth should be exposed.
To label fiction as fact is never justified nor should it be condoned.
Since actual period documentation does not exist in support of the Holocaust
myth, it has always been incumbent on its supporters to create it.
Not only is the “Anne Frank” diary now considered to be a fake, so also is “The
Painted Bird” by Jerzy Kosinski. This book, which is a mass of pornographic and
sadistic imagery which, had it not been taken so seriously by the Jewish
community, would be merely the pathetic manifestation of a self-serving and very
sick person.
This was duly exposed as a shabby, though much revered (by the Jewish community)
and quoted, fraud. When this was exposed, Kosinski committed suicide. Later, in
Kosinski’s footsteps we find the next fiction entitled “Fragments, ” by a Swiss
Protestant named Bruno Dosseker who spent the war in Switzerland as a young
child. Dosseker posed as a very young Baltic Jewish concentration camp inmate
named Binjamin Wilkomerski. This work consists of allegedly fragmented
“memories” and is very difficult to read
Dosseker became the poster boy for the Holocaust supporters and was lionized by
the international Jewish community, reaping considerable profit and many
in-house awards for his wonderful and moving portrayal of German brutality and
sexual sadism.
Another book, allegedly by a Hungarian doctor, concerning his deportation from
Budapest in 1944 and subsequent journey by “Death Train” to Auschwitz is another
fraud. There was never such a doctor in Hungary during the period involved and
the alleged route of the train from Budapest to Auschwitz did not exist.
These sort of pathetic refugees from the back wards seem to be drawn to the
Holocausters…and they to them. There are now “Holocaust Survivors” as young as
thirty which is an interesting anomaly because the last concentration camp was
closed in 1945. Perhaps they consider the last frenzied spring sale at
Bloomingdale’s department store to be what they survived.
Next we can expect to see a book based on twenty-seven volumes of secret diaries
prepared on a modern word processor within the current year by an alleged
inhabitant of the Warsaw ghetto, describing the Nazi slaughter of tens of
millions of weeping Jews by means that would shame a modern African state.
And, predictably, the publication of these howlers would be greeted with joy on
the part of the fund raisers and fanatics, praised in the columns of the New
York Times and scripted by Steven Spielberg for a heart-wrenching and guaranteed
Oscar-winning film.
Hundreds of thousands of DVD copies will be donated to American schools and the
Jewish community will demand that subservient executive and legislative bodies
in America create a Day of Atonement as a National Holiday to balance the
terrible Christian Christmas and the wickedly Satanic Halloween.
Conservationists must hate these books because so many otherwise beautiful and
useful trees are slaughtered for their preparation
Insofar as the Anne Frank diary is concerned, herewith is some background on
Anne Frank, her family and her alleged Diary.
The Franks were upper class German Jews, both coming from wealthy families. Otto
and his siblings lived on the exclusive Meronstrasse in Frankfurt. Otto attended
a private prep school, and also attended the Lessing Gymnasium, the most
expensive school in Frankfurt.
Otto attended Heidelberg University. After graduation he left for a long
vacation in England.
In 1909, the 20 year old Otto went to New York City where he stayed with his
relatives, the Oppenheimers.
In 1925 Anne's parents married and settled in Frankfurt, Germany. Anne was born
in 1929. The Frank's family business included banking, management of the springs
at Bad Soden and the manufacture of cough drops. Anne's mother, the former Edith
Holländer, was the daughter of a manufacturer.
In 1934, Otto and his family moved to Amsterdam where he bought a spice
business, Opekta, which manufactures Pectin used in making household jellies.
On May 1940, after the Germans occupied Amsterdam Otto remained in that city
while his mother and brother moved to Switzerland. Otto remained in Amsterdam
where his firm did business with the German Wehrmacht. From 1939 to 1944,
Otto sold Opeka, and Pectin, to the German army. Pectin was a food preservative,
and a anti infectant balm for wounds and as a thickener for raising blood volume
in blood transfusions. Pectin was used as an emulsifier for petroleum, gelatized
gasoline for fire bombing. By supplying the Wehrmacht, Otto Frank became, in the
eyes of the Dutch, a Nazi collaborator.
On July 6, 1942 Otto moved the Frank family into the so-called 'Secret Annex'.
The annex is a three story, mostly glass townhouse that shares a garden park
with fifty other apartments.
While he was allegedly in hiding, Otto Frank still managed his business, going
downstairs to his office at night and on weekends. Anne and the others would go
to Otto's office and listen to radio broadcasts from England.
The purported diary begins on June 12, 1942, and runs to December 5,1942 . It
consists of a book that is six by four by a quarter inches. In addition to this
first diary, Anne supplemented it with personal letters. Otto said Anne heard
Gerrit Bolkestein in a broadcast say: ~ "Keep a diary, and he would publish
after the war", and that's why Anne’s father claimed she rewrote her diaries
second time in 1944.
In this second edition, the new writer changed, rearranged and occasionally
combined entries of various dates.
When Anne allegedly rewrote the diaries, she used a ball point pen, which did
not exist in 1945, and the book took on an extremely high literary standard, and
read more like a professional documentary than a child's diary. In Anne's second
edition her writing style, and handwriting, suddenly matured.
The actual diary of Anne Frank contained only about 150 notes, according to The
New York Times, of October 2 ,1955.
In 1944, German authorities in occupied Holland determined that Otto Frank had
been swindling then via his extensive and very lucrative Wehrmacht
contracts. The German police then raided his apartment attic, and the eight Jews
were sent to Westerbork work camp and forced to perform manual labor .Otto
himself was sent to Auschwitz.. Anne, her sister Margot, and her mother,
subsequently died of typhus in another camp.
In 1945, after being liberated from German custody, Otto returned to Amsterdam,
where he claimed he found Anne's diary cleverly hidden in the Annex's rafters.
However, another version has a Dutch friend, Meip Geis finding Anne's diary of
fictional events, which she then gave to Otto Frank.
Otto took what he claimed were Anne's letters and notes, edited them into a
book, which he then gave to his secretary, Isa Cauvern, to review. Isa Cauvern
and her husband Albert Cauvern , a writer, authored the first diary.
Questions were raised by some publishers as to whether Isa and Albert Cauvern,
who assisted Otto in typing out the work used the original diaries or whether
they took it directly from Mr. Frank's personal transcription.
American author, Meyer Levin wrote the third and final edition
Meyer Levin was an author, and journalist, who lived for many years in France,
where he met Otto Frank around 1949.
Born in 1905, Meyer Levin was raised in the section of Chicago notoriously known
in the days of gangster warfare as the "Bloody Nineteen Ward." At the age of
eighteen he worked as a reporter for the Chicago Daily News and during the next
four years became an increasingly frequent contributor to the national literary
magazine, The Menorah Journal. In 1929 he published THE REPORTER, which was the
first of his sixteen novels.
In 1933 Levin became an assistant editor and film critic at the newly-created
Esquire Magazine where he remained until 1939.
Perhaps his best-known work is COMPULSION (1956), chronicling the Leopold and
Loeb case and hailed by critics as one of the greatest books of the decade. The
compelling work was the first "documentary novel" or "non-fiction novel.”
After the enormous success of COMPULSION, Levin embarked on a trilogy of novels
dealing with the Holocaust. The first, EVA (1959) was the story of a Jewish
girl's experiences throughout the war and her adjustment to life after the
concentration camps. This was followed by THE FANATIC (1963), which told the
hypnotic story of a Jewish poet dealing with the moral questions that arose from
his ordeal at the hands of the Nazis. The last in the triptych, THE STRONGHOLD
(1965), is a thriller set in a concentration camp during the last days of the
war.
At the outset of World War II Levin made documentary films for the US Office of
War Information and later worked in France as a civilian expert in the
Psychological Warfare Division. He eventually became a war correspondent for the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, with the special mission of uncovering the fate of
Jewish concentration camp prisoners. Levin took his role very seriously,
sometimes entering concentration camps ahead of the tanks of the liberating
forces in order to compile lists of the survivors.
After the war Levin went to Palestine and turned his attention again to the
motion picture camera. His film MY FATHER'S HOUSE told the story of a child
survivor searching for his family in Palestine. He wrote this story as a novel
as well and the book was published in 1947.
Levin also joined the Hagana underground and helped smuggle Jews from the
interior of Poland to Palestine, then basically an Arab country under the
control of the British..
In 1951 Levin came upon a copy of the French edition of the Anne Frank diary He
made a number of attempts to have the work published in English, and conceived
it as a play and film. When the diary finally found an American publisher, his
play was accepted for production but then suddenly barred, ostensibly for being
"unstageworthy," and another writer's version was commissioned.
Levin fought for the rights to perform his version of the play, claiming that
the real reason the producers refused to stage his work was because they thought
it "too Jewish." He saw the suppression of the play as an extension of the
Stalinist attack on Jewish culture and, outraged that even Anne Frank could be
censored, he took the producers to court and began an agonizing, prolonged
struggle that dragged on for years.
Levin eventually won a jury award against the producers for appropriation of
ideas, but the bitterness of the trial made him many enemies in the Jewish and
literary communities.
Although Levin's version of the play is still banned by the owners of the
dramatic rights, underground productions of the work are frequently staged
throughout the world.
Meyer Levin died in 1981
Levin rewrote the various post-war treatments of the Anne Frank diary with an
eye toward a Broadway production, but Otto decided to cut him out, refusing to
honor his contract or pay him for his work. Meyer Levin sued Otto Frank for his
writings, and the New York Supreme court awarded Meyer Levin $50,000, for his
'intellectual work'.
In 1980, Otto sued two Germans, Ernst Romer and Edgar Geiss, for distributing
literature denouncing the diary as a forgery. The trial produced a study by
official German handwriting experts that determined everything in the diary was
written by the same person. The person that wrote the diaries had used a
ballpoint pen throughout. Unfortunately for Herr Frank, the ballpoint pen was
not available until 1951 whereas Anne was known to have died of typhus in 1944.
Because of the lawsuit in a German court, the German state forensic bureau, the
Bundes Kriminal Amt [BKA] forensically examined the manuscript, which at that
point in time consisted of three hardbound notebooks and 324 loose pages bound
in a fourth notebook, with special forensic equipment.
The results of tests, performed at the BKA laboratories, showed that
“significant” portions of the work, especially the fourth volume, were written
with a ballpoint pen. Since ballpoint pens were not available before 1951, the
BKA concluded those sections must have been added subsequently.
In the end, BKA clearly determined that none of the diary handwriting matched
known examples of Anne's handwriting. The German magazine, Der Spiegel,
published an account of this report alleging that (a) some editing postdated
1951; (b) an earlier expert had held that all the writing in the journal was by
the same hand; and thus (c) the entire diary was a postwar fake.
The BKA information, at the urgent request of the Jewish community, was redacted
at the time but later inadvertently released to researchers in the United
States.