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
The issue is that people tend to use "Otto himself approved all this" as a universal shield for the Anne Frank cottage industry, and I think it's an insufficient one The primary creative force behind most of it has been non-Jews selling media to non-Jews
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I can't pretend to know all the reasons he had for making the decisions he did, but he was just one man in the end anyway If the respectful thing is to leave him out of it because of what he endured in his life I think that means not using him as a shield either
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Maybe so, but I don't think anyone here is suggesting we do that.
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