Maybe you should save that energy for Sharon Dogar's Annexed, a novel that still shows up on YA reading lists about the Holocaust even though it's a crappy perfunctory paint-by-numbers cash-in ("Peter POV fic") that literally throws in a (highly improbable) sex scene
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(They were living in an attic and never more than 20 feet away from their parents so no I don't think there's much possibility anything happened between them Anne kept out of her diary and Dogar's "historical speculation" was obviously clickbait to move copies)
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I'm not mad at Otto Frank for expurgating the diary for its initial publication - that's obviously what Anne intended All the other stuff afterwards, *especially* the Goodrich and Hackett adaptation for stage and screen, is completely fair to get mad at him for
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Did Otto Frank have ANY other means of supporting himself that we know of? I mean, he lost everything. I don't begrudge him trying to survive in a world that literally took everything from him.
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The diary's success was already enough to set him up for life financially before the play and the movie were made And even assuming A play and movie had to be made, they didn't have to be THIS play and movie That's exactly what Meyer Levin was mad about
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Damn, I guess he was a greedy holocaust survivor huh!
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I didn't bring up money as the reason he made the decisions he did,
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Replying to @arthur_affect @searotonin
I wasn't necessarily defending him, but I was suggesting that IF he didn't have any other means, or even if he lived his life afraid of not being able to escape at a moment's notice, well...I can't really blame him for any of that.
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Why shouldn’t you defend him? It’s none of Arthur’s fucking business how a holocaust survivor made his livelihood or how he talked about Anne Frank, because it has no relevance to him in any shape or form.
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...Well, okay, the stated reason Otto gave for creating a stage play and a movie is that it WAS relevant to me (i.e. the story had "universal relevance"), which is one of the things his critics criticized him for
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I mean one of the primary things I think is distasteful about Goodrich and Hackett's adaptation is that it transforms Hermann and Auguste van Pels - who were Jewish victims of the Holocaust - into horrible selfish people and abusive parents
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