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Editor says, what if Anne Frank survived to live in the world of peace envisaged by author Kurt Vonnegut? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
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In 1954, Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank married her childhood sweetheart in a traditional ceremony on this day in Amsterdam.Anne Frank marries Peter Schiff
Frank, the Jewish schoolgirl who wrote her diary while hiding from the Nazis in the Netherlands during World War II, was captivated by Peter Schiff. 
She met him at school in 1940, his family also having fled from Germany to Amsterdam the previous year. At age 11, Frank fell in love with Schiff and later, while in hiding in Amsterdam herself, wrote about how much she missed him until their reunion on VE Day August, 1 1944.
The diary Click 
to watch Anne Frank: The Whole Story Part 1, which was given to Anne on her 13th birthday, chronicles her life from June 12, 1942 until August 1, 1944. It has been translated into many languages, has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films. Anne Frank has been acknowledged for the quality of her writing, becoming one of the most renowned and discussed Jewish celebrities of the post-war era.
Wartime records indicate that Otto Frank's office building had been betrayed to the Gestapo only twenty-four hours before "the accident".
In the diary, Anne wrote "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world". Claus von Stauffenberg could not agree more. On July 20th 1944 he planted a bomb in the Fuhrer Headquarters - the Wolfsschanze (Wolf's Lair) at Rastenburg - killing Adolf Hitler and enabling the High Command to sue for peace. In 1968, the celebrated German-American author and pacifist Kurt Vonnegut contributed a short introduction to the twentieth anniversary special edition of the diary, writing ~ "Let us be grateful to the one for a world of peace where the accident will"1.
Entry posted by Todayinah Editor
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Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Religion Source: Huffington Post Labels: Anne Frank, Peter Schiff, Nazi, Final Solution, Germany. Editor says, in seeking to find a point of departure (an accident in Kurt Vonnegut's fatalist philosophy), we selected Operation Valkyrie, the July 20th plot to kill Hitler which occured in the same timescale as the discovery of Anne Frank's hideaway.
1) We then introduced a crossover to the ingenius novel Slaughterhouse-Five (imagining this instead was the foreword to the Diary as written by Vonnegut) ~
I went back there with an old war buddy, Bernard V. O'Hare, and we made friends with a taxi driver, who took us to the slaughterhouse where we had been locked up at night as prisoner of war. His name was Gerhard Muller. He told us that he was a prisoner of the Americans for a while. We asked him how it was to live under Communism, and he said that it was terrible at first, because everybody had to work so hard, and because there wasn't much shelter or food or clothing. But things were much better now. He had a pleasant little apartment, and his daughter was getting an excellent education. His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes. He sent O'Hare a postcard at Christmastime, and here is what it said: "I wish you and your family also as to your friend Merry Christmas and a happy New Year and I hope that we'll meet again in a world of peace and freedom in the taxi cab if the accident will." I like that very much: "If the accident will.'"
We like the sentiment a great deal too - you rule, sir.
~ Interesting....
~ I wonder what else she would have written? Would she have gone on to a career as a writer?
~ Good point. A number of Holocaust survivors have done so, drawing on their experiences
~ A happy ending! I wonder if she, like many survivors, would immigrate to the United States?
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