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   From: not@home.org   
      
   This is... what? 40 years old?   
      
         
      
        In 1981, the Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation submitted   
      Anne Frank's handwritten diaries to the Dutch State Forensic Science   
      Laboratory of the Ministry of Justice to determine their authenticity.   
      The State Forensic Science Laboratory examined the materials used--   
      the ink, paper, glue, etc.--and the handwriting and issued a report of   
      some 270 pages.  "The report of the State Forensic Science Laboratory   
      has convincingly demonstrated that both versions of the diary of Anne   
      Frank were written by her in the years 1942 to 1944.  The allegations   
      that the diary was the work of someone else (after the war or   
      otherwise) are thus conclusively refuted."  Furthermore, that "despite   
      corrections and omissions..._The_Diary_of_Anne_Frank_ [i.e., the   
      published version of the diaries] does indeed contain `the essence' of   
      Anne's writings, and that there are no grounds on which the term   
      `forgery' can be applied to the work of the editors or publishers of   
      the book." <1>   
      
      
      1.  Anne Frank, _The_Diary_of_Anne_Frank:_The_Critical_Edition_,   
          Prepared by the Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation,   
          edited by David Barnouw and Gerrold Van Der Stroom, (New York,   
          Doubleday, 1989) p. 166.   
      
         
      
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