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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday May 16 2018, @03:29AM   Printer-friendly
from the Anne-Frank's-frank-diary dept.

Anne Frank's 'dirty jokes' found in hidden diary pages

Two new pages from Anne Frank's diary have been published, containing a handful of dirty jokes and her thoughts on sex. The young Jewish teen's diary, written in hiding from the Nazis, became world-famous when published after her death and at the end of the war.

The hidden pages had been covered with gummed brown paper - apparently to hide her risqué writing from her family. New imaging techniques have finally allowed researchers to read them.

The entries were written on 28 September 1942, not long after the 13-year-old Anne went into hiding. "I'll use this spoiled page to write down 'dirty' jokes", she wrote on a page with a handful of crossed-out phrases - and jotted down four dirty jokes she knew. She added a few dozen lines about sex education, imagining she has to give "the talk" to someone else, and mentioning prostitutes - who she wrote elsewhere that her father had told her about.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Bot on Wednesday May 16 2018, @11:33AM (1 child)

    by Bot (3902) on Wednesday May 16 2018, @11:33AM (#680352) Journal

    I am more concerned with the fact that the diary is not in the public domain because the father claims to have altered it, so he has been a coauthor. And now, more original content, or who knows.

    If it's studied in schools, they should get the original version, or at least know what they are studying.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by c0lo on Wednesday May 16 2018, @12:12PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday May 16 2018, @12:12PM (#680359) Journal

    I am more concerned with the fact that the diary is not in the public domain because the father claims to have altered it

    Her father can make no new claim since 1980, on the ground of "dead man tells no tale".
    It's the "Anne Frank Fonds" that makes this claim, suspectly close to the moment of copyright expiration. The Wikipedia entry states:

    ... thus leading to expiration of the copyright term for the first version on 1 January 2016.
    ...
    In 2015, the Anne Frank Fonds made an announcement, as reported in The New York Times, that the diary was co-authored by Otto Frank.
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    The foundation also relies on the fact that another editor, Mirjam Pressler, had revised the text and added 25 percent more material drawn from the diary for a "definitive edition" in 1991, and Pressler was still alive in 2015, thus creating another long-lasting new copyright

    Oh, well, what do you expect? Someone said it better than I could:

    "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
    --- Upton Sinclair

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