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Frank Diary
May. 16th, 2018 10:51 pmSomeone has found Anne Frank's collection of dirty jokes, hidden in her diary. According to the historians, reading these really gives a sense of Frank as a human being, and not just a character from history. Sadly, we can't read them, because none of the news outlets are printing them. We've become such a prissy society in 2018 that the sort of story a 13 year old girl might consider smutty and funny would apparently cause societal meltdown if printed in the news.
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I'm glad they found them, nonetheless. I've long doubted the authenticity of that diary, based largely on the way that it was found. IIRC, some two years after the War, Mr. Frank, last survivor of the family, went to visit the attic where they'd been hidden, and after about five minutes alone emerged with the diary which he'd found in its hiding place. This after Nazis had searched the place, and the room had been returned to its regular use as an attic for two years. A secret cache of dirty jokes so well hidden that they don't come to light until 70 years later isn't the sort of detail a hoaxer usually includes. I'm pleased to be wrong on that count.
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I'm glad they found them, nonetheless. I've long doubted the authenticity of that diary, based largely on the way that it was found. IIRC, some two years after the War, Mr. Frank, last survivor of the family, went to visit the attic where they'd been hidden, and after about five minutes alone emerged with the diary which he'd found in its hiding place. This after Nazis had searched the place, and the room had been returned to its regular use as an attic for two years. A secret cache of dirty jokes so well hidden that they don't come to light until 70 years later isn't the sort of detail a hoaxer usually includes. I'm pleased to be wrong on that count.
