Unmasking Anne Frank

<p>No single person better represents the face of the Holocaust than Anne Frank. As a 13-year-old Jewish girl living in wartime Amsterdam she hid out with seven other Jews for over two years. During this time she kept a diary of her thoughts feelings and experiences. Eventually the Frank family was discovered and deported; Anne later died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen at the age of 15. But her diary lives on. Today the Diary of Anne Frank is an icon of Jewish suffering amidst the vast sea of Holocaust literature and Anne herself has become a high priestess in the pantheon of Holocaust martyrs.</p><p> </p><p>Millions of people know of Anne's story but very few know of the many problems with it. As it turns out Anne's tale is rife with absurdities logical problems inconsistencies and incoherent claims. Here Japanese researcher Ikuo Suzuki deconstructs Anne's famous dairy exposing the many issues lying just below the surface. In the process he unmasks the truth: that the notorious diary was likely written by a middle-aged Jewish man who worked in conjunction with Anne's father Otto to foist upon the public a deceptive and highly misleading story of a young teenaged girl who perished in a German camp.</p><p> </p><p>Here for the first time Suzuki presents a thorough detailed and highly readable critique of the global bestseller that is Anne Frank's Diary. Far and away the best critical analysis of the famous diary this book fills a badly need gap in contemporary revisionist literature. </p><p> </p><p>Our view of Anne Frank-and of all Jews who suffered in the Holocaust-will never be the same.</p>