-Caveat Lector-
Is this a subject that falls under revisionism and therefore can only be
discussed from one side on this list? Looks like we have a de facto state
religion forming in Amsterdam and elsewhere -- together with is own
"dogmas" that cannot be questioned without penalties and maybe jail time,
eh? Jim Condit Jr. P.S. Upon re-reading the above questions sounds
sarcastic, but it is meant to be serious.
On Thursday, December 10, 1998 3:15 PM, Robert Tatman
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> -Caveat Lector-
>
> Court bans questions on Anne Frank veracity
>
> AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch court on Wednesday slapped a ban on all
> publications questioning the authenticity of Jewish teenager Anne Frank's
> wartime diary, saying they insulted and offended Jews.
>
> The case, brought by Amsterdam's Anne Frank Foundation and the Anne Frank
> Fund in Basle, stems from the unsolicited distribution to Dutch libraries
in
> 1992 of a book alleging Frank's father Otto was the real writer of her
> journal, which chronicles her family's years in hiding from the Nazis.
>
> Frank and her family lived secretly in the cramped back rooms of an
Amsterdam
> canal house for several years until their betrayal and arrest in 1944.
She and
> her sister Margot and their mother later died in a concentration camp.
>
> The court ruled on Wednesday that Frank's diary should be seen as
authentic
> and that it was unlawful to cast doubts on its veracity.
>
> It ruled that the publisher and authors of the book in question, ``Anne
Frank:
> a critical approach'' were banned from distributing the book or any
material
> of a similar content on pain of a 25,000 guilder fine per breach.
>
> ``The Anne Frank Foundation welcomes the court's judgement that the
denial of
> the diary's authenticity and the accusations directed at Otto Frank are
> insulting and hurtful to Jews in general and to the Anne Frank Foundation
> and...Fund in particular,'' the foundation said in a statement.
>
> It said the book, by Frenchman Robert Faurisson and Belgian Siegfried
> Verbeke, had been published by a Belgian publisher specialising in
so-called
> 'revisionist' literature which questions whether the Holocaust really
> happened.
>
> Similar trials have been held in Germany, the statement said.
>
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