It's kind of interesting and depressing that the war over Anne Frank's diary started soon after her death -- Meyer Levin's own account of his battle that lasted to the end of his life with Otto Frank over the adaptation rights was titled The Obsession -- and it's still going
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but I can't even begin to imagine what it was like for Otto Frank in the chaotic post-war period trying to put together what had happened to his family
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The way Levin - whom I agree with more or less when it comes to the politics of how the diary has been adapted and commercialized - went after Otto Frank with such fury on such a personal level over his decisions is why I can't find any good guys in this discourse
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