The Secret Pages of Anne Frank’s Diary
Although these pages have previously been encountered, Frank’s diary is allegedly scrutinized by his safekeeper every decade or so. This time, the difference was that advances in photo-imaging software made it possible to decipher the words under brown paper without jeopardizing the delicate document.
In May 2018, Anne Frank House revealed the words of these hidden pages for the first time since its author kicked them out, two years from the Nazis in the secret annex behind her father’s business in Amsterdam for more than two months. Was hidden
The pages contained ‘dirty’ jokes and ‘sexual matters’.
Beginning his entry on September 28, 1942, Frank wrote, “I will use this dirty page to write ‘dirty’ jokes.”
She went on to do so: “Do you know why German girls of the armed forces are in the Netherlands?” She wrote. “As a mattress for soldiers.”
He searches the entire house, and eventually even looks in the bedroom cupboard . Is a completely naked man, and when he. A man asked what the other one was doing there, the man in the closet replied: ‘You can believe it or not, but I’m waiting for the tram. ‘
Admission was also delayed in cases of a changing body and sexual curiosity. At one point, Frank described how a girl’s age is due to her first period, saying that “a sign that she is ripe to have a relationship with a man, but not before a wedding.” Does. ”
For these relationships, Frank had clearly given the subject some thought: “I sometimes feel that someone might come up to me and ask me to inform them about sexual matters,” she smiled. Said, “How shall I go about it?” She went on to explain that what she imagined was involved in “rhythmic movements”, as well as the use of “internal medicine” to prevent pregnancy.
Frank also revealed that she was well aware of big topics like prostitution: “All men, if they are normal, go with women, then that kind of women freeze them on the street and then they go together. Are, ”he wrote. “They have big houses in Paris. Papa has gone there.”
In total, according to Anne Frank House, the two pages were “filled with five crossed phrases, four dirty jokes and 33 lines about sex education and prostitution.”
More explicit entries revealed in each edition of the book
It is unclear why Frank covered these particular pages. However, Het Achterhuis’s original 1947 publication was replete with his diary and his father’s edits, which became famous for his impeccable references to “Kitty” and other fictional figures, with extended exhibition releases in 1986 and 1991 More explicit entries came out.
This included the stark discovery of her body: “By the time I was 11 or 12, I hadn’t realized that there was a second set of labia on [] inside her vagina, although you couldn’t see them,” He wrote on one point. “It is even more fun that I felt urine coming out of the clitoris.”
Frank made rude comments about his family, whereabouts co-residents, and the helpers who brought him supplies, which certainly stirred up the hurt feelings he had come to know at the time. These included lewd comments about her mother, “the old granny goat,” and her father’s “going to farting and mourning to talk about hatred.”
Frank wrote about everything he wrote before he could focus on a possible future publication by listening to the Dutch Minister Gerrit Bolkenstein’s March 1944 radio announcement about the importance of documenting the atrocities of the Nazis .
Frank used his diary to express ideas he was ‘not comfortable with’.
Despite Frank’s reasons for covering two pages, the revelation of its contents marked another step in the discovery and analysis of his prolific production while remaining isolated from the outside world.
According to Peter de Bruijn, researcher at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, the newly discovered passages are important because they reveal to Frank the development of his craft. “She starts with a fictional person she’s been talking about for sex, so she creates a kind of literary environment to write about a subject she’s probably not comfortable with.”
Anne Frank House Executive Director Ronald Leopold stated more succinctly, “They bring us closer to the girl and writer Anne Frank.
In May 2018, Anne Frank House revealed the words of these hidden pages for the first time since its author kicked them out, two years from the Nazis in the secret annex behind her father’s business in Amsterdam for more than two months. Was hidden
The pages contained ‘dirty’ jokes and ‘sexual matters’.
Beginning his entry on September 28, 1942, Frank wrote, “I will use this dirty page to write ‘dirty’ jokes.”
She went on to do so: “Do you know why German girls of the armed forces are in the Netherlands?” She wrote. “As a mattress for soldiers.”
He searches the entire house, and eventually even looks in the bedroom cupboard . Is a completely naked man, and when he. A man asked what the other one was doing there, the man in the closet replied: ‘You can believe it or not, but I’m waiting for the tram. ‘
Admission was also delayed in cases of a changing body and sexual curiosity. At one point, Frank described how a girl’s age is due to her first period, saying that “a sign that she is ripe to have a relationship with a man, but not before a wedding.” Does. ”
For these relationships, Frank had clearly given the subject some thought: “I sometimes feel that someone might come up to me and ask me to inform them about sexual matters,” she smiled. Said, “How shall I go about it?” She went on to explain that what she imagined was involved in “rhythmic movements”, as well as the use of “internal medicine” to prevent pregnancy.
Frank also revealed that she was well aware of big topics like prostitution: “All men, if they are normal, go with women, then that kind of women freeze them on the street and then they go together. Are, ”he wrote. “They have big houses in Paris. Papa has gone there.”
In total, according to Anne Frank House, the two pages were “filled with five crossed phrases, four dirty jokes and 33 lines about sex education and prostitution.”
More explicit entries revealed in each edition of the book
It is unclear why Frank covered these particular pages. However, Het Achterhuis’s original 1947 publication was replete with his diary and his father’s edits, which became famous for his impeccable references to “Kitty” and other fictional figures, with extended exhibition releases in 1986 and 1991 More explicit entries came out.
This included the stark discovery of her body: “By the time I was 11 or 12, I hadn’t realized that there was a second set of labia on [] inside her vagina, although you couldn’t see them,” He wrote on one point. “It is even more fun that I felt urine coming out of the clitoris.”
Frank made rude comments about his family, whereabouts co-residents, and the helpers who brought him supplies, which certainly stirred up the hurt feelings he had come to know at the time. These included lewd comments about her mother, “the old granny goat,” and her father’s “going to farting and mourning to talk about hatred.”
Frank wrote about everything he wrote before he could focus on a possible future publication by listening to the Dutch Minister Gerrit Bolkenstein’s March 1944 radio announcement about the importance of documenting the atrocities of the Nazis .
Frank used his diary to express ideas he was ‘not comfortable with’.
Despite Frank’s reasons for covering two pages, the revelation of its contents marked another step in the discovery and analysis of his prolific production while remaining isolated from the outside world.
According to Peter de Bruijn, researcher at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, the newly discovered passages are important because they reveal to Frank the development of his craft. “She starts with a fictional person she’s been talking about for sex, so she creates a kind of literary environment to write about a subject she’s probably not comfortable with.”
Anne Frank House Executive Director Ronald Leopold stated more succinctly, “They bring us closer to the girl and writer Anne Frank.
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