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Gerhard Schroder is the latest edition to a growing collection of good-looking and affable political leaders of Western democratic nations. He defeated a 300-pound man, Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who had spent 16 years in office, the longest period of single rule in Germany since Otto von Bismarck's reign over a century...
Suijk (pronounced Sowk) claims that he was given the five pages of unpublished entries by Anne's father shortly before Otto Frank died in 1980. The only member of the family to survive the war, Otto was both custodian of his daughter's legacy, and its expurgator. The first edition of the diary was published in 1947 without including embarrassing family passages...
Muller, who examined the new pages but legally could only paraphrase them, says that Suijk "got the pages because Otto didn't want to destroy them." The rest of Anne's original texts, including her revisions, are kept at the Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation. Suijk is hoping that a philanthropist will buy his fragments and donate them to the Institute so that he can use the proceeds to support his center in New York...
...remembered at all can be attributed to Nazi priorities: first, round up Jews; next, confiscate their valuables. Books and personal scribblings were optional. That is what happened on Aug. 4, 1944 when, on a tip, SS Oberscharfuhrer Karl Josef Silberbauer and his men broke into the annex behind Otto Frank's foodstuffs firm at 263 Prinsengracht in Amsterdam. The raiders arrested the Franks and four others who shared their secret quarters. Furniture and salable items were removed...
Left strewn on the floor were the green-and-red book, the journals and loose blue-and-pink sheets containing Anne's account of two years in hiding. They were picked up and put in a desk drawer by Miep Gies, Otto's secretary. Gies, now 89, is an international hero for helping to hide the Franks. The identity of the tipster remains unclear. However, Muller pointedly notes that there were discrepancies in the postwar testimony of a Dutch cleaning woman that were never followed...