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I've never considered the possibility that the book was a fake. It wouldn't shock me, but I've never seen any evidence presented to either prove or disprove its authenticity.

In fairness to my teachers, the ones that betrayed any ideology at all were certainly liberal, but this was in the early 80s-the days before political correctness. For the most part they tolerated, and even encouraged dissenting viewpoints.(College was another story!)

I think the main reason that the book got assigned so much was laziness on my teachers' part. It's a book that introduces some very important historical themes but is written on the level of an adolescent. That makes it an obvious choice for anyone who wants to teach kids a little history or talk about the "man's inhumanity to man" theme or even just a story about growing up. The problem is that it's too obvious a choice. It was always the first book that they thought of along those lines and they assigned it without considering that all of their peers in earlier grades had already done so.

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A. Hole is a jew-hater. He refuses to believe the Polish were in any way complicity in the Holocaust, and thinks the Joooz were behind Communism in Poland. He thinks Joooz are out to slander the Polish, he has a weird persecution complex.

It should surprise no one he thinks the Diary of Ann Frank might be a fraud.