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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

How in the world did she manage to edit her diary after the war when she died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp a month before the camp was liberated????


14 posted on 01/28/2010 9:35:23 PM PST by ghostcat
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To: ghostcat

She was editing before the war ended, for *publication* after the war ended.


19 posted on 01/28/2010 10:15:39 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: ghostcat; justsaynomore
How in the world did she manage to edit her diary after the war when she died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp a month before the camp was liberated????

From the Official Anne Frank House website:

"When I returned and after I had the news that my children would not be coming back, Miep gave me the diary which had been saved by, I should say, a miracle. It took me a very long time before I could read it. And I must say, I was very much surprised about the deep thoughts that Anne had, her seriousness, especially her self-criticism. It was quite a different Anne than I had known as my daughter. She never really showed this kind of inner feeling. She talked about many things, criticized many things, but what her real feelings were, that I could only see from the diary." - Otto Frank

Otto begins reading Anne's diary. It is a revelation to him, because he realizes how little he knew about his daughter. In her diary, Otto reads about the plan Anne had to publish a book after the war about the time she spent in the Secret Annex. She had even edited and rewritten a large portion of her original diary. Initially, Otto Frank feels uncertain about the idea but he finally decides to fulfill his daughter's wish. (emphasis added)

http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?pid=163&lid=2
21 posted on 01/28/2010 11:29:33 PM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (IN A SMALL TENT WE JUST STAND CLOSER! * IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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