Talk:The Diary of a Young Girl

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This book is so boring but it i still kinda sad at the same time


The diary of anne frank?

I beleive that's the title of the film/play, and this is about the published version of the diary. feba 05:40, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Reverted Page move.

The actual title of the work is "The Diary of a Young Girl," and it's by Anne Frank. Just because the name is not so well known and the author's name is blown up to larger size on some covers doesn't actually change the name. If you really think that the name should be changed anyway, I'd recommend going to WP:RM. SnowFire 03:13, 5 February 2007 (UTC)do you see how anyone can just edit?? this is not safe and reliable.


it is truely a inspiration to all young lives how is she an inspiration when she fuckin died .What is so inspirational about that.

BetacommandBot 04:41, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Length of criticism

I believe the length of the criticism is far too long given the length of the article. It is somewhat redundant and is seemingly only about demonstrating how holocaust deniers attack the authenticity of the book. While I feel it certainly does have a place within the article, I feel it should be shorter. Does anybody agree? I question whether the article needs the history of how it was verified to such detail Canking 01:51, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

The section on the attacks by Holocaust deniers isn't intended to act as a survey of general criticism of Anne Frank's diary, but to highlight an important and somewhat neglected aspect of its history in the pubic domain. One of the reasons there's such a detailed section on the history of the smear campaign against Anne Frank and her diary is that editors like me have spent a lot of time on Wiki (here and on the Anne Frank talk page) reverting edits and replying to statements from editors who want to allege that the diary is inauthentic. The statements generally cover the same ground and always insinuate that if, as they believe, the diary is fake, there's enough grounds to question the historical fact of the Holocaust. Editors who makes these statements tend not to be aware that these allegations been made and refuted many times, have a long legal history and have been challenged successfully in European courts. Interestingly the attacks here on Wiki on the authenticity of the Diary of Anne Frank have declined since this section was lengthened. For these reasons, I think it should stay.

Yallery Brown 12:52, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Different Editions?

I was looking at the section in the article called "Editorial History." It is quite small for an article about a well-known book, and doesn't even mention the definitive edition of the novel. Does anyone else think it should be expanded? Ebo666 Villa (talk) 22:06, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Original notebooks

Do the original notebooks still exist? Are they located somewhere? Ctbolt (talk) 14:43, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

... after Otto Frank's death in 1980 ... In his will, Otto Frank bequeathed his daughter's manuscripts to the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, who commissioned a forensic study to determine when the manuscripts had been prepared, and by whom. The glue, paper and other materials used in the original notebooks ...

From the above, I think it reasonable to conclude that the originals are still at the Institute.SlowJog (talk) 15:42, 12 June 2008 (UTC)