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Germany 'distorting, rewriting history' with Anne Frank tweet

On Twitter, Foreign Ministry spokesman says, "Anne Frank's diary is NOT a warning about wishy washy pseudo universal values! Anne Frank's legacy is a warning against the hatred and persecution of JEWS."

by  Eldad Beck
Published on  06-14-2019 12:50
Last modified: 06-16-2019 16:40
Germany 'distorting, rewriting history' with Anne Frank tweet

A picture of Anne Frank taken in 1942

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Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon accused German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas of attempting to rewrite history with his recent remarks in honor of Anne Frank Day.

"Anne Frank's diary is NOT a warning about wishy washy pseudo universal values! Anne Frank's legacy is a warning against the hatred and persecution of JEWS. The attempt to 'universalize the lessons of the Shoah' is nothing less than a dishonest rewriting of history," Nahshon wrote on Twitter.

On June 12, in honor of Anne Frank Day, the German Foreign Office Twitter account quoted Maas as saying, "#AnneFrank would have turned 90 today. Her diary is more relevant than ever before as a warning against discrimination, marginalization and persecution and as a symbol of humanity. We can learn from her."

Within the framework of Anne Frank Day, which falls on Frank's June 12 birthday, memorial events are held in honor of the young Jewish Holocaust victim whose famous World War II diary is considered one of the most important works of the 20th century.

Frank and her family hid from the Nazis in a secret annex in a house in Amsterdam during World War II but were discovered by the Gestapo in 1944. She died at age 15 at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.

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