Find Out Why Anne Frank's Diary Was Considered Controversial. It Isn't What You Think
You may have studied the historic book in school, but these facts will give you more of a glimpse into her life.
She got it for her 13th birthday and decided it was better suited as a journal.Â
They were addressed to someone named Kitty. Some people believed she was referring to her friend Käthe "Kitty" Egyedi.
German officers raided the building because someone told them where the Frank family was hiding.Â
She died of typhus three days before British troops liberated the camp.Â
Anne's father Otto survived the concentration camp.
Miep Gies, a Dutch citizen, gave it to him and he submitted it for publication.Â
If she had, it never would have been published. She once said that she would have destroyed it because it incriminated everyone who helped hide the family.
It's not because of the violent nature of the war. There is a passage where Anne becomes curious about her anatomy, which critics considered "pornographic."
A school in Alabama once tried to ban it for being "a real downer."
The original has been analyzed for ink and handwriting and has been confirmed to be real.