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Didn't Meyer Levin write it and sue Otto Frank over it winning $50,000.00. Maybe I'm thinking of something else.
That theory has been advanced over the years by various people, mostly far right holocaust deniers.
What actually happened is that Otto Frank took the diary to Levin who was interested in making a screen play out of it. Levin then edited a copy of the diary given to him by Frank in part because he wanted to make it more suitable for a screen play (more condensed, more flowing etc). Levin also had an eye on marketability and may well have emphasized or de emphasized some parts for drama. Otto Frank and Levin then had a business dispute.
Anyways, in response to holocaust denial charges placed against various people over the years, both the German Federal Police and the Dutch police have examined the original diary and have forensically determined that Anne Frank did, in fact, write the diary.
That is not to say that there were no changes were made to the original manuscript as indicated by small portions written in ball point pen (several notations?). These notations could have been made by Levin, or by Otto Frank. Otto Frank did state that he edited some passages because he was either embrassed by how they portrayed the family or to protect the privacy of certain people accused of anti semitism / collaboration on grounds that were not established as fact.
I had the same experience. The line was huge. In addiiton, I think one needed to make reservations in advance if one wanted to be guaranteed entry. I needed to leave the next day so I could not do it.Was going to go, stayed nearby, but the line-ups were too long. Another regret.
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