On a diary a few days ago, a poster made this comment:
Any mention of Anne Frank in the 'official' records? Nope?
Well, guess what... That's wrong.
Tonight, 60 Minutes ran a piece called: Revisiting the Horrors of the Holocaust
For the first time, secrets of the Nazi Holocaust that have been hidden away for more than 60 years are finally being made available to the public. We’re not talking about a missing filing cabinet - we’re talking about thousands of filing cabinets, holding 50 million pages. It's Hitler’s secret archive.
[video]
[transcript]
More from the 60 Minutes episode:
The Nazis were famous for record keeping but what 60 Minutes found ran from the bizarre to the horrifying. This Holocaust history was discovered by the Allies in dozens of concentration camps, as Germany fell in the spring of 1945.
As correspondent Scott Pelley reports, the documents were taken to a town in the middle of Germany, called Bad Arolsen, where they were sorted, filed and locked way, never to be seen by the public until now.
Anne Frank?
The 60 Minutes team also found the file of "Frank, Annaliese Marie," better known as Anne Frank. It’s her paper trail from Amsterdam to Bergen-Belsen, where she died at the age of 15.
They also have the actual Schindler's list, along with the detailed records of 17 million human beings from the Nazi camps -- from the Nazis' own file cabinets.
Another excerpt:
Their names are listed in notebooks labeled "Totenbuch," which means "death book." The names are written here, single-spaced, in meticulous handwriting.
"Here we see the cause of death: executed. And you can see, every two minutes they shot one prisoner," Jost explains.
"So they shot a prisoner every two minutes for a little over an hour and a half?" Pelley asks.
"Yes. Now look at the date: it’s the 20th of April. That was Adolf Hitler’s birthday. And this was a birthday present, a gift for the Führer. That’s the bureaucracy of the devil," Jost says.
"The devil's in the details," the CBS correspondent reports.
Here's a diary that tried to make the point that current trend toward revisionism was both wrong and dangerous. Check out the comment trail... Like this one:
No one can deny it happened. The only argument can be about the details.
The next time someone writes something like that, you might want to direct them to this archive
which will soon be open to the public.
The devil is in the details.