Qilu Evening News Qilu OnePoint reporter Zhao Shifeng Interactive editor Wang Xuefei
Welcome to Sophie's Dad Read. This issue of Dear Reader will share with you a historical mystery that has been dusty for many years and has been exposed to the answer, that is, how was the famous "Annie Diary" author's family discovered by the Nazis?
"Anne Frank's Diary" is a record of the life and emotions of an 13-year-old Jewish girl Anne Frank who hid in the secret room two years before her death during World War II, and when she hid in the "back room" with her family, she wrote a letter to her friend Kitty, which truly recorded Anne's confusion about the conflict with her mother, her views on the war, her views on the social status of women, her longing for love, and her exploration of human nature.
The Diary of Anne Frank's account of 25 months of hidden and horrific life in the Vault also made the book a sighting report on the suffering of the people under German occupation and another ironclad evidence of the later exposure of Nazi tyranny.
The diary was written from June 12, 1942 to August 1, 1944. Anne died in 1945 at the Belson concentration camp in Germany, three months before her 16th birthday. After the war, only Anne's father, Otto, survived the family. He compiled Anne's diary during her period of hiding, which attracted worldwide attention when published and translated into many languages.
However, how the Anne family, who were hiding in a secret room in Amsterdam at the time, was discovered by the Nazis has long been a mystery that researchers hope to solve. A few days ago, the German media "Bild" reported that the informant behind it is most likely a Jew.
On January 17, local time, Pancock, a former agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced to the Dutch media that his research team had spent five years and discovered through high-tech means that the informant was most likely Arnold, a Jewish notary at the time. Panel experts believe they are 85 percent sure that Arnold made deals with the authorities through a list of Jews in his possession to protect his wife and children.
Translator Dark Horse commented that The Diary of Anne Frank has been a bestseller and regular seller for years than novels or documentaries by adult writers describing the world war. Indeed, the war described from a child's point of view, more real, more objective, calmer and even more acute, is the best historical record for today's children to understand that period of history. Not only has Anne Frank's Diary been published around the world, but it has also been remade several times into films and television series, and the animated film of the same name was released in France at the end of last year.
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