And besides, there are no greater enemies on earth than the Germans and Jews. Although Anne had lived in the Netherlands since 1934, she did not become a Dutch citizen. By 1939 some 250,000 Jews, half of Germany's Jewish population, had fled their homeland. He believed strongly that blaming all Germans was another form of stereotyping. He believed that Anne would have wanted him to do so.
Older people have an opinion about everything and are sure of themselves and their actions.
A disturbing number of neo-Nazi groups have taken hold in all parts of the world. Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was asked how he could explain the killing of 6 million Jews. So many say they never understood what was happening. Hitler published Mein Kampf in 1925, describing his plan for the elimination of Jews. There may be no better way to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II than to reread The Diary of a Young Girl, a testament to an indestructivle nobility of spirit in the face of pure evil.