![]() Part II will be the timeline of the investigation and the suspects. Part I will be background information, a bibliography, discussion questions, and some side information. The people that led the raid were different nationalities- the participants were Austrian and Dutch acting under orders of a German so I refer to them simply as the "raiders", which I decided not to capitalize because it looked too much like the American Football team the Las Vegas Raiders. The mixed use building at 263 Prinsengracht housed various businesses by Otto Frank at various times, I refer to it generally as "Opekta", the name of the larger of the companies before and after the war, and the part specifically used for hiding as the Annex. I decided to split the difference The investigations (and the order in which the suspects are named) are in roughly chronological order, but some material supporting or that particular suspect is taken from other places, particularly from the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD) and Pankoke investigations. I was unclear whether I should list the suspects in arbitrary order with all the evidence for or against, or list the investigations and books and their findings and allegations in chronological order. Although it was a large team and the findings were authored by another, I refer to book and investigation team simply as "Pankoke" and the "Pankoke investigation". So I thought I'd write up my thoughts of the book, combined with the findings of previous investigations. The controversy even resulted in the Dutch publisher cancelling the book and apologizing. And those involved tried to cover it up lest the truth provoke anti-Semitism, not what they would want to Anne's legacy. And the allegations were explosive- the betrayer was not a Nazi or even a Dutch citizen sympathetic to the Nazis, or even a Dutch citizen that just wanted a bounty, but a fellow Jew. Recently a new investigation led by FBI investigator Vincent Pankoke concluded with a new book coming out on the investigation: The Betrayal of Anne Frank by Rosemary Sullivan. But in September 1944 when it seemed the Allies were going to advance into the rest of the Netherlands, the Amsterdam branch of the SD destroyed a large part of their archives, and further records were destroyed in a targeted bombing raid in November. ![]() At one time a smoking gun likely existed: records of payments of bounties to people for betraying Jews for that period. We'll probably never know for sure, because it took a while for the diary to become a worldwide phenomenon like it did, and in the immediate aftermath of the war there was no special attention given to the Frank's case as opposed to countless others. Who betrayed Anne Frank? Is one of the most famous unresolved mysteries of our time.
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