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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Like, there was a period in my life where I considered myself an Anne Frank obsessive too and I read book after book and watched film after film about the diary and the history around it
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And in hindsight I almost regret it, like if you just barely break the surface of the discourse as most people know it it's this endless demoralizing slapfight
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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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"Nasty" is putting it a bit harshly but yes The worst stuff pertaining to himself that he hid was Anne being very frank (so to speak) that she believed her parents had a loveless marriage, and mentioning that he'd had a suicide attempt
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As far as whether doing that was immoral or exploitative, I dunno Anne makes it extremely clear that she did very much want to be a writer and to have her diary be preserved as a primary source of her experiences She started the process of editing it for publication herself
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Maybe, but very much overtaken by events beyond everyone's control, wouldn't you agree
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