Publisher Apologizes for Anne Frank Book

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OldArmy71
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The publisher of the Anne Frank book which used AI and cold case experts to identify her betrayer as a fellow Jew has apologized for publishing the book.

No real details of why the apology, but as a number of people on Texags noted at the time the book was covered on 60 Minutes, the theory offered was not nearly as certain as was being claimed.

I am no expert on this topic, but numerous students of the issue in The Netherlands disputed the book's findings (that a member of the Nazi-sanctioned Jewish Council betrayed the Franks in order to save himself).

Among other things, the Jewish Council had been disbanded by the Nazis long before the Franks were discovered, and the guy the book accuses was himself in hiding at the time the Franks were arrested.
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I bet he's still cashing the checks from book sales though.
BQ78
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Real hatchet job.
aalan94
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This is bad all around. Even if he did it, you can't realy make that point out of context. First of all, it plays into anti-Jewish stereotypes, but secondly, the Nazis excelled at forcing people into impossible moral choices. Using Jews as the primary enforcers within the concentration camps (the "Kapos") for instance. Every Jew in Europe was pulled into the holocaust, even if they were never deported.
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