Anne Frank

The fable of Anne Frank

Eight Jews who hid in an attic for two years

This site explores the background of the people, the physical setup of the annex, and what the experts say is nothing but an absurd fairy tale.

The real fraud lies with a father, who exploits his family's tragic deaths, which ultimately he was responsible for, because of his arrest.

1890 - 1923

Frank's House

Otto's prep school

Lessing School

History of Anne Frank's parents

The Franks were upper class German Jews, both came from wealthy families.

Ottto and his siblings lived on the exclusive Meronstrasse. Their daily lives consisted of servants, private schools, riding lessons, tennis, etc. They were 'The aloof Jews' of the privileged class that lorded over Germans for 50 years.

Even as children, their social lives consisted of family parties, costume balls, as well as outings to the opera, where the Franks had a private box.

Otto attended a private prep school, and also attended the Lessing Gymnasium, the most expensive school in Frankfurt.

Otto's description of his college years

During the holidays: ..... "I could not bear staying at home very long after school." In Frankfurt, life was too organized, and the "parties every week, balls, festivities, beautiful girls, waltzing, dinners ... etc., were so boring".

Otto's family owned a country place near Frankfurt, he and his good friend Nathan Strauss often took German girls there for the weekend.

Otto attended Heidelberg University. After graduation he left for a long vacation in England.

1909 - The 20 yr old Otto went to NY, where he stayed with his relatives, the Oppenheimers.



Weekly lavish parties	Private box at the opera

Otto, the consummate swindler's first lie

Otto said he was a WW1 veteran and war hero. Otto was in New York staying with his relatives, the Oppenheimers, who were jewelers a and owned a chain of pawn shops, they lived at 1211 Madison Avenue. On the social scene, Otto befriended Charles Strauss, the Macy's department store heir..

Do you believe that a rich Jewish dilettante, and a womanizer, left New York to fight in the trenches of France?

1923 - 1933

The Frank Family

Expensive clothes

Exclusive Jewish schools

The Franks in Germany

1925 - Anne's parents marry and settle in Frankfurt, Germany. Anne was born in 1929. These were rich haughty Jews who paraded around Frankfurt like peacocks.

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.

1929 the depression arrived in Germany.1933 the unemployment in Germany was 6,100,000 or 35%.

Otto's wedding

Ordinary Germans

Starving in the streets

Bread lines

Otto Frank's business career

Frank and Sons bank

The Frank family was always into banking. In 1923 Otto and Herbert founded a bank called "M. Frank and Sons". Johannes Kleiman was also involved.

The Franks profited from the Weimar deflation

During 1924 Weimar Inflation (The Mark depreciated 4,000,000 %), and currency traders like Franks made fortunes. During the recovery of 1925 to 1929, the Franks lent enormous sums to fellow Jews, who defaulted, and the Franks blamed the defaults on the depression, leaving the gentiles with savings accounts, penniless.

From 1930 to 1933 the Franks foreclosed on German land owners, allowing fellow Jews to buy Germans property for pennies.

In 1933 the Franks faced a trial

After the WW1 betrayal, the Versailles treaty, the 1923 collapse, and the 1929 depression, the Germans had their fill of Jews. Otto and his brother last scheme was out and out embezzling, but they got caught, and Germany brought them to trial. Otto Frank fled to the Netherlands, Herbert Frank to France and Johannes Kleiman went to Belguim. Nazis weren't even in power yet.

Otto Frank flees to Amsterdam

1934 -1942

1934 Otto settles in Amsterdam

Otto buys a spice business,Opekta, which manufactures Pectin used in making household jellies. From 1934 to 1942 they lead the idealistic life.

Frank's Amsterdam apartment


	The Nazis occupy Amsterdam On May 1940 the Nazis occupy Amsterdam. Otto knew that the Germans found Jews distasteful, but didn't bother taking a 1/2 hr boat ride to England. Otto's mother and brother moved to Switzerland, but he preferred Amsterdam where he could make a profit from the war.



	Otto's business From 1939 to 1945, 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 the Jew" was a Nazi collaborator.

	July 6, 1942 Otto waits two years to move the Frank family into the 'Secret Annex'? The annex is a three story, mostly glass townhouse that shares a garden park with fifty other apartments. Here are detailed pictures.

1942 - 1944

Otto fears for his life so the family goes into hiding

According to "The Diary": ~ 15 yr old Margot, who lives in Amsterdam, is tracked down by Nazis, and receives an induction notice into a German work brigade? Otto then decides to hide his family in his office. Otto supposedly moves in, and swears his five employees to secrecy. They move into a 3 story, all glass garden apartment in the rear of the building.

While he was 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.

Otto's protectors

TheVoskuijls, Meips, Kuglar, and Klieman will protect, and supply them. Despite the fact that, three of them, are themselves Jews.

Anne Frank's Diary

The diary begins on June 12, 1942, and runs to Dec 5,1942, it's a book that's six by four by a quarter inch. In addition to this first diary, Anne also filled a series 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 rewrote her diaries second time in 1944.

In this second edition, Anne changed, rearranged and occasionally combined entries of various dates. She began editing her writing, removing sections and rewriting others, with the view to publication.

The oddities are: ~ When Anne rewrote the diaries she used a ball point pen, the book took on an extremely high literary standard, and it reads more like a professional documentary than a child's diary. In Anne's second edition her writing style, and handwriting, suddenly matured

Anne Frank left a diary containing only about 150 notes, according to The New York Times, 2 October 1955.

1944 - Otto Frank arrested

Nazis storm the attic, and the eight Jews are sent to Westerbork and forced to sledge hammer batteries? Otto and Peter are sent to Auschwitz, where Otto sees Peter gassed. Anne, Margot, and the mother, die of typhus. Otto is spared the gas chamber, and sent to the hospital.

How the eight died.

1945

Otto returns and cooks the diaries

Otto returns to Amsterdam

Otto, who is found in an Auschwitz hospital, somehow escaped the gas chambers? After Auschwitz he returns to Amsterdam, where he find's Anne's diary in the Annex's rafters, another version has Meip Geis finding Anne's diary of imaginary events, and she gave it to Otto Frank.
Otto then takes Anne's letters, converts them to a book, and then gives it to Ias Cauvern to review. Otto is questioned by the Dutch legal authorities about Nazi economic collaboration during the occupation, but the investigation was squashed.


	Isa Cauvern's -- Otto Frank's secretary, and her husband Albert Cauvern , a writer, authored the first diary. Otto gave his daughter's imaginary stories to these two to compile as a story. Prof Faurrison, an expert from the Sorbone, voiced suspicions about their participation. Questions were raised 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 "copied out" copy?


	Meyer Levin - He wrote the third and final edition Levin was an author, and journalist, who lived for many years in France, where he met Otto Frank around 1949. Typical of his early rhetoric: ~ "The Jews suddenly faced themselves....They saw that they were different from all other inmates of the camp. For them things were not so simple. To go back to Poland? To Hungary? To streets empty of Jews, towns empty of Jews, a world without Jews. To wander in those lands, lonely, homeless, always the tragedy before one's eyes...and to meet again a Gentile neighbor who would open his eyes wide and smile, remarking with double meaning 'What, Yankel! You're still alive.'" Meyer Levin, Author, June 1946
Levin rewrote the Diary with an eye toward a Broadway production, but Otto decided to cut him out. Meyer Levin sued Otto Frank for his writings, and the New York Supreme court awarded Meyer Levin $50,000, for his 'intellectual work'.

Eight versions of the diary


1944	The diary of Anne Frank.
1945	Copy by Otto Frank
1945	Copy by Otto Frank and Isa Cauvern
1946	New version of the copy by Otto Frank and Isa Cauvern;
1946	New-new version of the copy by Albert Cauvern
1947	New-new-new version by Otto Frank;
1947	New-new-new-new version by Otto Frank and the "Censors";
1947	Contact edition was a failure
1948	Meyer Levin rewrites the entire diary and it sells 60,000,000 copies
1950	Lambert Schneider book edition (off Levin's diaries) radically different from the preceding one
1955	Fischer edition () taking up again the preceding one in a "discreetly" (?) reworked and retouched form.
1986	The Diary of Anne Frank: The Critical Edition (1989),
1991	The 'Definitive' Edition ...Inserts sexual pages for spice


	Anton Ahlers blackmails Otto Carol Lee, who authored 'The hidden life of Otto Frank, contends that Otto paid off Ahler's through a Swiss bank account, until Otto's death. Her theory is, that Otto paid Ahlers for his silence over the wartime sale of pectin to the Wehrmacht. She argues that Otto was initially worried that Ahlers and a Dutch inquiry would portray him as a collaborator.
Obviously, if Otto was bold enough to defy Meyer Levin in public courtroom, but pay Ahlers for 35 yrs, then Ahlers had something of an explosive nature. He must have had pictures or solid documents, that would confirm the diaries as a total hoax. Otto's adultery was well known, so it wasn't that.

Writers and historian challenge diaries


	1957 Harald Niels, a Danish literary critic for the Swedish paper Fria Ord wrote a piece alleging the diary owed its final form to Meyer Levin.
	1958 Life magazine has Anne's handwriting on cover and nothing matches
	1959 Otto Frank took Lothar Stielau, a school teacher who claimed the diary was a absurd hoax, to court.
	1967, a journalist named Teressa Hendry, of the American Mercury writes it's all ahoax and the real author had been Meyer Levin.
	1975, a British historian David Irving, repeated the charge in that an American court had "proved" a New York scriptwriter had produced the diary "in collaboration with the girl's father."
	1976, Heinz Roth, an architect from Odenhausen, published "Anne Frank's Diary-A Forgery".
	1978, Robert Faurisson, of the department of Literature at the University of Lyons, published Le Journal d'Anne Frank est-il authentique? (The Diary of Anne Frank-Is It Authentic?) He was trained at the Sorbonne, and specialized in close textual analysis He is considered the world's foremost authority on the whole Anne Frank matter. Faurisson spent yrs studying diaries and interviewing Otto Frank,
	1980, Otto sues Ernst Romer and Edgar Geiss, for distributing literature denouncing the diary as a forgery. The trial produced a study by handwriting experts that determined everything was written by the same person. The person that wrote the diaries used a ballpoint, which was available till 1951 ~ Anne died in 1944.
	1980 the German criminal investigation bureau examined the manuscript, in the form of three hardbound notebooks and 324 loose pages bound in a fourth notebook, was examined with special equipment. The results of tests performed at the BKA laboratories show that portions of the work, specially of 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. [*]
	Ditlieb Felderer publishes: ~ Anne Frank's Diary: a Hoax (IHR, 1980)
	Verbekke agrees with Faurisson and Harwood, who are convinced that the diary of Anne Frank is a forgery.

Handwriting

None of the diaries 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 possibly fake.

Faurison questions Otto

In 1982 Dr Robert Faurisson published an article on Anne's 'diary' which demonstrated that at one time Anne had very mature handwriting but then, months later, a childish scrawl. Faurisson's investigation took him to Basel, Switzerland, where he spent two days talking with Otto Frank.

Otto told him, "Dr Faursisson, I agree with you 100 per cent. All those things [i.e. contradictions which Faurisson found in Frank's alleged lifestyle-in-hiding] are theoretically, scientifically impossible, but so it was." Faurisson tried unsuccessfully to obtain a handwriting specimen from Otto Frank, but the man always used a typewriter.

Faurisson also wanted a sample of Isa Cauvern's handwriting, but wasn't able to attain it.

After the Netherlands Institute's analysis, various personal letters and postcards of Anne appeared on the open market. These samples voided the institutes claim that the handwriting was Annes.

Dr Faurisson conclusion: ~ Otto Frank, and others, had very substantially adapted and enlarged an original manuscript for financial gain

Witnesses

Not long after R. Faurisson began to put questions to Otto Frank and his friends, Victor Kugler received a prize of 10,000 dollars for the protection he offered to the family Frank during the war

The problems


	The ball point pen The results of tests performed at the BKA laboratories show that portions of the work, specially of the fourth volume, were written with a ballpoint pen. And all four volumes were written by the same hand.
	Writing style Any informed literary inspection of this book, would have shown it to have been impossible as the work of a teenager.
	Handwriting Unbelievers had observed that there are two handwritings in the Diary : a handwriting in print letters, that looks childish, and a handwriting in manuscript letters, that looks adult.
	Pictures Any pictures that surfaced were quickly bought up. You couldn't let a 13 yr old Anne be seen at the beach if she was hiding in an attic. Auschwitz postcards caused a similar problem.
	The Annex The Annex, which was mostly glass, sat on a city park


	Otto and Anne From the book 'The secret life of Otto Frank' ...A little 'too close'

22 biography of anne franks life
120 anne frank gallery
117 anne franks home 276 info on anne frank
272 anne frank image 366 anne frank in hiding
358 book about anne frank
353 anne frank hunt
345 anne fran1 diary of anne frank script
154 anne frank web quest
153 bibliography anne fran

70 anne frank bio
267 anne frank the whole story
253 anne frank photograph
237 anne frank house amsterdam
229 who is anne frank
223 picture of anne frank and her family
209 diary of anne frank test
196 how did anne frank die
194 anne frank essay
182 anne franks hiding place
177 anne franks childhood
172 anne frank article
162 anne franks life story
16k
148 quote from anne frank

146 activity diary of anne frank
145 the diary of anne frank study guide
140 anne frank quiz
138 anne frank secret annex picture
133 excerpt from the diary of anne frank
128 anne frank test
127 anne frank secret annexe
126 anne frank com
125 anne frank activity
124 anne franks education
123 anne frank tale from the secret annex
123 work of the anne frank foundation
1k diary entry

The logical conclusion

They lived openly in the Annex, and may have been others with them, but that's doubtful. Anne's infatuation with Peter Van Pel reflects a fantasy, more than reality. The diary was small book, that consisted of a child's imaginary world.

The annex couldn't have possibly been a secret, there were fifty apartments that shared the garden park, and would notice the Franks at night. The story of Germany tracking down 15 yr old Margot, for a work brigade, is total nonsense. Otto wasn't betrayed, he was arrested for swindling the Wermacht.

Basically Otto was a swindler, and Meyer Levin wrote the diaries. Look at the handwriting.

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Eight Jews who hid in an attic for two years

The 'Definitive' Edition ...Inserts sexual pages for spice