Scientific Tests Reveal it was Written after 1951 The Court ruled against Otto Frank and ordered him to pay $50 thousand. Otto Frank was sued by Meyer Levin, a New York scriptwriter, that Frank had claimed he wrote large portions of the script that was written by Levin. There have always been suggestions that the diary was a complete hoax because of its non-credible claims and many inconsistencies between editions and translations where the text had been edited to appeal to specific countries. The English version has sold over 4 million copies to this date. The book has been translated into many other languages and Otto Frank has earned millions of pounds from the royalties. Otto Frank found a willing publisher and sold the stage and film rights as well.

She died in the hospital at Auschwitz, while being treated for TYPHUS. The alleged diary he claimed was written by her while the family was in hiding from German police in occupied Holland, and before she died at Auschwitz. Otto Frank, a Jewish businessman from Frankfurt, was one of the inmates at the Auschwitz rubber plant manufacturing camp, who survived the Typhus epidemic during 1945.Īfter the War, he tried to get a publishing deal in 1946 with claims of a diary that he said was written by his daughter. Der Spiegel is a weekly German news magazine like Time or Newsweek, by Dr William L. The information was revealed in an article on pages 119 and 122 of DER SPIEGEL on 6 October 1980. The alleged “diary” was also written in ballpoint pen ink - which had been invented during the War years, but was not manufactured for public use until 1951 Scientific analysis of the manuscript supposed to be the original diary of Anne Frank, during WW2 reveals that it could not have been written before 1951, six years after the end of the war.

The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank