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.
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 teenage girl who perished in a German camp.
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 revisionist literature.
UNMASKING ANNE FRANK
Unmasking Anne Frank: Her Famous Diary Exposed as a Literary Fraudby Ikuo Suzuki
2022, paperback, 202 pages
ISBN: 978-1737-4461-94CHAPTER 1: ABSURD ON THE SURFACE
Basic Information about Anne’s Diary
Anne’s Diary: Three Contentious Issues
The Translation of ‘Cat’ into ‘Tarantula’?
A “Hideout” in Full View?
Interviewing Otto
CHAPTER 2: ABSURDITY LURKING IN THE DEPTHS
Anne’s Diary, Revised Critical Edition
Did Anne Really Edit Her Own Diary?
Complex and Bizarre!
More Anne Magic!
True Emotion!
The Surprising Origins of “Dear Kitty”
All the Diaries Written in One Go!
Was Everything a Figment?
CHAPTER 3: ANNIE AMPLE: A SOFT-CORE PORN ROMANTIC LIFE?
An Accidental Narrative Plot?
A Budding Lesbian
Urinating in Front of a Strange Man?
Writing a Blue Story in the Presence of Seven People?
CHAPTER 4: BEGINNING AND END OF THE HIDEOUT
The ‘Genius Writer’ Who Never Wrote Again
Anne’s Missing Letter from Auschwitz
The Absurdity of “The Beginning”
The End of “Hideout”
Did the Police Miss the Diary in Front of Them?
“Margot’s Diary,” and Other Missing Items
The Shocking Truth! Did Anne Give Up Her Diary?
Why Did Anne Get a Gorgeous Book, But Not a Diary?
Who Wrote the ‘Handwriting of the Same Person’?
CHAPTER 5: THE DIARY UNMASKED
Did Otto Write the Diary?
The Untold Confusion. And a Writer.
A Passion Bordering on Madness
More Abysses: The Origin of a Legend
Afterword: Annelies Next to You
Postscript by Karl Haemers
Reviews
Great book, must read