SOURCE: "A 'Revisionist Historian' Manipulates Anne Frank's Diary," in Patterns of Prejudice, Vol. 15, No. 1, January, 1981, pp. 27-32.

In the following essay, the critics address the contention of Swedish revisionist Ditlieb Felderer that Anne Frank's diary is a falsified document.

To assert that Anne Frank constitutes the 'pinnacle of the Holocaust theory' is a gross distortion of history. The claim is made by the Swedish 'revisionist historian' Ditlieb Felderer who strives his utmost to expose Anne's diary as a fraud. The allegations and accusations levelled in his book continue the type of 'yellow press' writing found in his Bible Researcher, run from the Stockholm suburb of Täby. This 'broadsheet' indulges in revisionist 'history', attacks upon the Anne Frank diary, and spiteful vituperation towards the recently deceased Otto Frank. Anne's father is accused of participating in a form of racist activity by spreading hate towards and denigrating Arabs. He...