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February 8,
2022 "The
book combines hundreds of
By
Sven Felix Kellerhoff, Senior Editor History of Welt [this page is part of the Betrayal of Anne Frank. A 21st Century Canard files]
Kugelmann: Part of the team was in Basel around five years ago. The question was whether the Anne Frank Fund Basel would be willing to cooperate and open the archives of the families and the fund. Welt:
What bothered you about the term "cold case diary", which
the initiators of the project had chosen as the
working title? Welt: The Anne Frank Fund has declined to support the project. Why? Kugelmann: The Anne Frank Fund supports investigations, research and police enquiries. The team couldn't deliver any of this. A private company with no academic or other adequate connection. It's not enough for a former FBI agent to try to operate new computer software with a team of non-experts. Such amateurish work would have been rejected by any FBI panel or court. Welt:
What do you think of the result of this project that
has now become
known? Kugelmann:...
Experts around the world support our criticism –
without exception.
Historians, specialist journalists and scientists
have torn the
results up in thin air and accused the cold case
team of
charlatanism. The book is fundamentally wrong and
accumulates
hundreds of factual errors. And all of the team's
long-standing
consultants flee, negating the cooperation. Kugelmann: It shows the dangerous dynamics of unreflective reporting in connection with the digital high-speed information world. Within seconds, a conspiratorial thesis went around the world, and the headline “Jew betrayed Anne Frank” was established as fact. Mostly without a question mark. Even if the evidence had been watertight, it should have been: "Dutchman betrayed residents of the Secret Annex." Now the big clean-up begins.
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