I am curious how substantial was Otto Frank’s role in writing and editing “Anne Frank’s Diary.” If it was substantial and the diary was sold to us as the work of a girl, were we defrauded? Perhaps more skepticism of such claims is in order.
New York Times: “PARIS — When Otto Frank first published his daughter’s red-checked diary and notebooks, he wrote a prologue assuring readers that the book mostly contained her words, written while hiding from the Nazis in a secret annex of a factory in Amsterdam.
But now the Swiss foundation that holds the copyright to “The Diary of Anne Frank” is alerting publishers that her father is not only the editor but also legally the co-author of the celebrated book.”
Times of Israel: In feud with Amsterdam museum, copyright holders are using final year before diaries enter the public domain to push a play, a TV docudrama, films, apps and an archive
