In these times of ubiquitous deceit, explorations of previous unresolved mysteries are inevitable. As people become more aware of the lies, cover-ups, pretenses and marketing stories that attend such affairs as 911, weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, the 2009 Swine Flu H1N1 scare, and of course the covid-19 phenomenon among many others, we are going to wonder again about the validity of stories long past. If some "mass shooting" depicted in today's media is shown to be some form of hoax, then what about past shootings which we've already accepted? Many people now know the assassination of John F Kennedy on 11/22/63 in Dallas Texas is attended by many unanswered questions involving the CIA, the Israeli Mossad, organized crime, Vice President Lyndon "Baines" Johnson, the US Secret Service, the autopsy doctor, and many others. Some of these questions have indeed been answered, and interest continues.
The history of mass deception gathers interest as current mass deception is revealed or at least suspected. This is especially true of past deceptions whose implications still affect us today. One great example is the Diary of Anne Frank, also called The Diary of a Young Girl (does the second title carry more pathos?). The official curator of the Diary, promoter and educator on the story, and even custodian of the "annex" house where Anne Frank hid for two years from rapacious implacable "Nazis" in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, now operated as a museum, is The Anne Frank House.
Other works have explored the validity of the Diary on numerous points. Are the writing style itself and subject matters possible for a girl of from thirteen to fifteen years? What are the results of forensic analysis of the paper and ink used, and of handwriting analysis? Numerous editions of the Diary have been published in different languages at different times. Are they consistent with each other or do the contents change? This book is the first of which I am aware to present a graphic display of the various changes. Internal inconsistencies, logical impossibilities and logistical unlikelihoods in the text have been explored, and more are continually discovered.
This book will present some of the analysis made by perhaps the foremost Diary revisionist, Robert Faurisson. His Is the Anne Frank Diary Genuine? was considered the first earnest examination of the validity of the Diary, and either the most persuasive or the most notorious, depending on perspective. Faurisson also revises views of the Holocaust in general, for which he has been attacked in multiple ways including physically. Being denounced as a "holocaust denier" and "anti-semite" has been used to try and discredit his work on Diary revision, but this is unjust. Faurisson and all Diary revisionists must be assessed based on the content of their presentation on this topic alone. Personal attacks and references to other works are inadmissible.
Another compelling work examining the validity of the Diary is Anne Frank's Diary, A Hoax by Ditlieb Felderer. [1] First published by Bible Researcher in Sweden in 1978 and subsequently in English by Institute for Historical Review the next year, this work remains an excellent source of analysis. In the Foreward we read "The colossal hoax surrounding the Anne Frank Diary is so immense, the implications so profound that mankind must find out about it".
Find out about it we do in this work. An exploration of the various claims for the physical Diary and/or diaries themselves presents the significant confusion over the number of books, their color, size, page count and other logistics of the original physical diaries, which Anne Frank House does not display but claims are kept in a safe elsewhere off-site. Otto Frank refused Felderer's request to examine the original Diary itself.
Felderer makes a great contribution through his examination of internal inconsistencies and practical impossibilities within the Diary entries. He explores such topics as the working of the bookshelf door, the noise the occupants made while trying to remain hidden, their gluttonous food supply, various window anomalies, and other suspect accounts. He also identifies perverse and degraded themes, including anal fixation, sexual obsession, genital anatomy, drug addiction (Anne daily popped valerian pills), and animosity and violence. Though the Diary is marketed as a charming, touching account of an innocent girl facing desperate difficulty while trying to grow up into a young woman, Felderer does well to show us that the Diary content actually depicts a perverted, corrupt, sensationalist account of a girl concerned with debased and degenerate thoughts. Could such thinking occur in a thirteen year old girl?
This new book will expand on such themes and add new ones. The Diary contains a great many entries revealing the grotesque and debased direction of the author's thoughts, obvious to those able to extricate themselves from the cult programming that frames the Diary and see it at face value. How such a pornographic work could be so widely promoted for children to read is a mystery only to those who do not realize the perversion of children and youth is one of the objectives of the Diary. Sympathetic identification with the main character is the vector for such filth to spread.
Another work emerged in 1998 from Heretical Press by Simon Sheppard. Anne Frank's Novel: The 'Diary' is a Fraud contains eighteen chapters, some of them similar to chapters in Felderer's work. Such topics as "The Manuscripts", "The Matter of the Ballpoint Pen", "The Need for Silence in the Annexe", "Valerian Pills", "The Gassings and Other Mysteries" and others appear to discover similar issues as Felderer and Faurisson. Sheppard offers a bibliography which might even list those other books, but I have not read Sheppard's work and cannot say. It is available for sale on Amazon but only as a Kindle file, and shows the table of contents and part of the first chapter. [2]
Two years prior, in 1996 Sheppard presented a shorter treatise on the Diary, On the Book of Frank, available online at heretical.com. [3]
Sheppard has been imprisoned for his "heretical" views, including "anti-semitism" and inciting racial hatred, in Britain. He and a colleague attempted to escape to the US and apply for political asylum, claiming the law of 1290 expelling Jews from Britain had never been legally rescinded. His request was rejected and Sheppard endured years in prison. [4]
We can see that in the case of Anne Frank's Diary, and the holocaust in general, freedom of speech can be very expensive. Faurisson was fined, beaten, and fired, Simon was imprisoned, and others such as 90 year old Ursula Haverbeck and Alfred and Monica Shaeffer have faced persecution, discrimination, assault, prison, impoverishment and ostracism for expressing doubts about the Diary and the holocaust. Currently sixteen European nations and Israel criminalize "holocaust denial" in various forms which includes Diary doubt, and others regularly threaten to join them, including the USA and Canada. [5] Iran is particularly noted for freedom of speech on the holocaust, and awarded Faurisson a prize for his courage in speaking freely.
Perhaps the core of critique on the Anne Frank Diary focuses on who was the actual author. This takes a surprising wide range. Sheppard in 1996 claimed the Diary was initially written by Anne, but then so distorted by Anne and embellished by another or others as to become a fictional account:
"...the Diary is not a forgery, but that the fraudulence it contains is due to a cumulation of distortions started by Anne Frank herself. Indeed it is proposed that it is worse than a forgery by being a more convincing hoax: it is an unreliable mixture of fact and fantasy." [6]
Faurisson, who interviewed Otto Frank in person, leans toward the view that the Diary was written by Otto, or at least substantially modified by him. Portions of this book will explore Faurisson's views in more detail.
Felderer presents no conclusion nor even a clear speculation. In a section headed "Did Anne Frank Even Exist?", he writes:
"In fact, it is because the girl existed that the story is so grave, so ugly. The big problem that Mr. Frank has is not that he has no diary, but THAT HE HAS A DIARY OR DIARIES. With every hoax there must be elements of truth or it won't succeed... No serious faker wanting to succeed would (use only fake materials). Instead he tries to get as close to the original as he possibly can." [7] (caps original)
Felderer speculates broadly regarding his handwriting analysis:
"In summing up our observations it seems to us that the handwritings may not at all belong to Anne. The question is to whom; and when it was written? Do they belong to Anne, to Margot, to Dussel, to Mr. or Mrs. Van Daan, to Anneliese Schutz, to Mr. Frank, to his present wife "Fritzi," to Isa or Albert Cauvern or someone else or may they even be a combination of various handwritings from different people?"
In an appendix at the back of Felderer's Hoax, he features a quote by Faurisson:
"Unless Anne Frank has risen from the dead to transform and alter the text of her Diary, then we must conclude that her father has been the author all along." [8]
Felderer includes no speculation in his long list that the Diary was written by Meyer Levin, but this may be because Felderer is examining exclusively the handwriting here. Meyer may have written the content of the Diary, but someone else may have written out the actual entries, to give them the appearance of having been written by a young girl. Felderer bypasses the Levin-as-Diary-author theory thus: "...the court case concerning Meyer Levin apparently did not concern the diary but a play built on the diary." [9]
This book will examine the court case more closely, as well as the background of Meyer Levin. It will make the strongest argument among those Revisionists who even consider it, that Levin may have been the actual Diary author.
These researchers/authors and others—Richard Harwood (Verall), Arthur Butz, Gilad Atzmon, David Irving, Brian Harring, to name only some—who have presented doubts and even conclusions regarding the validity of the Diary have all made contributions toward clarity and veracity of such an influential historical document. We aspire with this book to add to the evidence and analyses which drive conclusions inevitably toward the view that The Anne Frank Diary is an immense hoax and fraud.
All the many feelings, perceptions, activities, funding, institutions, programs, "education" and overall Weltanschauung generated by belief in this supposed historical document in the form of a diary must be revised. The story of an innocent young Jewish girl and her family and friends hunted and persecuted by evil "Nazis" as portrayed in the many iterations of the Diary into plays, films, other books, articles, lectures and even museums must crumble under the increasing weight of the truth. This book is a heavy block added to the weight of evidence already flattening the flimsy structure of lies known as The Diary of Anne Frank. May truth arise from these new foundation blocks and liberate so many believers from the dangerous illusion, and fortify those who doubt with certainty.
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