As Richard Breitman, a historian at American University, pointed out in a separate background paper, Berle wrote in January that some consulates ask for a trust fund. By the summer of , the Franks were forced into hiding. They remained in the secret annex for two years before being turned in, probably by the same courier who initially may have tried to blackmail them. Breitman explained that after France fell to the Germans in June , fears grew in the United States of a potential fifth column of spies and saboteurs peopled by European refugees.
By June of , no one with close relatives still in Germany was allowed into the United States because of suspicions that the Nazis could use them to blackmail refugees into clandestine cooperation. As the exchange of letters show, Otto Frank would have had to get an exit permit out of the Netherlands, and transit visas for a series of Nazi-occupied countries to one of the four neutral areas where America still had consular offices.
By the summer, an escape to the United States appeared hopeless. In order to reach a neutral country, Frank then tried to obtain a Cuban visa, a risky, expensive and often corrupt process. Perhaps if there had been less appeal to the emotions the problems might have resolved themselves through peaceful means. However, almost universally read at the time, few people then recognized the potency of one small book or the injustice done the South through its wide acceptance as a fair picture of slavery in the South.
Propaganda, as a weapon of psychological warfare is even in wider use today. Communists are masters of the art. Often they use the direct approach; just as often they employ diversion tactics to focus the eyes and cars of the world in directions other than where the real conflict is being waged. For many years, through propaganda alone, the deadly threat of Hitler and Nazism has been constantly held before the public in a diversion maneuver to keep attention from being directed against the live threat of Stalin, Khrushchev and Communism.
Such has been the effect, if not the deliberate intention of many who have promoted its distribution, of a book of dynamic appeal -- The Diary Of Anne Frank. It has been sold to the public as the actual diary of a young Jewish girl who died in a Nazi concentration camp after two years of abuse and horror. Most Americans have read the book or seen the movie version, deeply moved by the real life drama it claims to present.
But have we been misled in the belief that Anne Frank actually wrote this diary? And if so, should an author be permitted to produce a work of fiction and sell it to the world as fact, particularly one of such tremendous emotional appeal?
A condensation of these articles appeared in the April 15, issue of Economic Council Letter, as follows:. History has many examples of myths that live a longer and richer life than truth, and may become more effective than truth.
The Western World has for some years been made aware of a Jewish girl through the medium of what purports to be her personally written story, "Anne Frank's Diary. Inquiry of the County Clerk, New York County, as to the facts of the case referred to in the Swedish press, brought a reply on April 23, , giving the name of a New York firm of lawyers as "attorneys for the respondent.
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