Posted on 02/26/2008 8:49:45 AM PST by barackyroad
On Jan. 6, 1944, Anne Frank wrote in her diary that her image of him was so vivid she didn't need a photograph to remember him.
Indeed, more than 60 years later, no photograph had been found of Anne Frank's childhood sweetheart, leaving hundreds of readers around the world curious for a glimpse. But now, 81-year-old Earnst Michaelis has identified his dearest childhood friend, Peter Schiff, as the "Petel" or "Peter" from the diary … the mysterious boy who stole Anne Frank's heart.
Despite "Anne Frank's Diary" becoming one of the world's most-read journals, selling an estimated 35 million copies, what Peter Schiff might have looked like was an enduring mystery. He met Anne Frank at school in Amsterdam in 1940, and they were inseparable
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I would like to believe that, but that’s just a nice tale we told ourselves so we could align with the Germans against Stalin.
They knew; they participated (as did many of the French elite and others).
Yes, there are notable exceptions -— the freemasons, many Roman Catholics, and many other groups were extremely helpful to Jews fleeing Germany.
I don’t know about the fertilizer, but families all over Germany who were getting bombed/having shortages made up for it with excellent furniture and furnishings “liberated” from Jewish families (and others) all over Europe.
What a handsome boy.
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I read it in a history of the war, years ago, and do not remember where.
It took years for Germany to recover from the war. Even in the early ‘70s there were bomb and shell damaged buildings. The white marbled buildings from the Third Reich era were landmarks. We returned years later and saw familiar buildings with the marble facades removed, and every evidence of shell damage covered up. Along with cosmetic changes, the war generation has disapeared or died off. With that the feel of the country has changed. Germany has lost that feeling of the war having just ended...
We had worked along side with some of that generation, and worked in Germany in an atmosphere of the country still getting back on it’s feet.
No thinking person could be there without wanting to understand how these things came to be, without seeing what the war had done to the German soul. We knew former Nazi’s trying to hide their past. (Nazi by association) Now their children were coming of age and asking questions. And the children became adults trying to understand what their parents had done. Most people refused to talk about the war, common to hear “We didn’t know, etc.”, and sometimes heart wrenching stories of seeing terrible things, but being helpless.
Their blood, the Nazi’s and their victims, cries out from the ground, “Look at what we have done! Do not go where we have gone!”
When we try to clean up history because the truth is so ugly, we silence those voices.
Is this the boy whose mentions were deleted from her diary by her father, who found the entries embarrassing?
How cute. We visited Anne Frank house in 1980. It was a very moving experience. I do not know HOW they managed to live there so long, all those people plus a cat. It had to be so difficult. Such an ugly mark on Human History... the Nazis and Hitler.
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