She is perhaps Hitler’s best-known victim. Her book has sold more than twenty-five million copies and has been translated into at least fifty-five languages. She has become a symbol of the ten million souls murdered by the Nazis, Jews and non-Jews and in particular the one and a half million innocent children. She was just fifteen when she died, a miserable and lonely death in a concentration camp in Germany yet she is remembered for her faith in humanity. Anne Frank Remembered, 1995
The landlord of their apartment turned out to be a Nazi party member and in March 1931 they moved. The bank owned by the family also had serious problems resulting in its complete collapse in the Spring of 1933. ibid.
In those years before the war Holland was generally good to its Jewish refugees from Germany. ibid.
At first they conducted a hearts and minds campaign to win over the Dutch, their Aryan brothers. ibid.
From the beginning Anna addressed her diary as a special friend. ibid.
For almost a year he [Otto] had been secretly preparing a hiding place for them all … in several rooms behind the company offices. ibid.
Her increasing problems with her mother … ‘She’s not a mother to me …’ ibid.
Any one of them could have called the authorities at any time to collect the reward for betraying the Jews in hiding. ibid.
Their world collapsed … The authorities had been tipped off by an anonymous phone call. ibid.
All right, Netherlands, how many gun murders a year do you have? Like 3, 4. We have 30,000. And do you know why. Because we’re Number One. Think about it. Why does America have so many more gun murders than the Netherlands? Because our country has superior aim. We’re better Marksmen. Judah Friedlander: America is the Greatest Country in the United States, Netflix 2017
Tulips: The Dutch started buying tulip bulbs like lottery tickets. They knew all about speculation … This was the world’s first great speculative bubble. A pound of tulips were now changing hands for the price of a house, a farm, a pair of ships … The tulip market had collapsed in just four days. Andrew Marr’s History of the World V: Age of Plunder, BBC 2012