Photographer: Arnold Newman

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So they dragged him back to that place, making him relive those memories… for a photo op?

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SJWs and their need to find a victim to defend. Who dragged him? What makes you think he couldn’t say no? And who told you that was done just for the photo?

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Why do you assume they’re an SJW?

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Because of a clearly visible desire to find a victim and to defend it, regardless of what actually happened.

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Who’s defending whomst? I just don’t go in for PR photo ops, no matter the cause…seems manipulative to me

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What’s an SJW?

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Yeah, I don’t think SJWs are on the side of “Anne Frank’s dad shouldn’t have taken an emotional picture in the attic they hid in.”

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Otto has been very vocal and active in getting his daughter’s diary published and getting her story told. It’s far more likely he dragged himself there.

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45 points

Presumably he could have just said no. Maybe he actually wanted to visit the last place where his family was alive

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Or he went back by choice and someone captured the moment? You don’t have to be outraged about everything, you know.

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i mean it was only 15 years later and probably the first time anyone could go back im sure a lot of people wanted to see what was left and im sure they didn’t force him if he volunteered to be photographed

it was also the day that the anne frank house opened

https://www.annefrank.org/en/about-us/what-we-do/otto-franks-mission/

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Not Fun fact: Anne Frank did not get executed. She died from disease in the concentration camp.

The more things change, the more they stay the same

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That’s just execution with extra steps

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Stochastic execution.

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5 points

Well, when it’s the point of the camp at least.

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3 points

You’re right, that wasn’t fun at all.

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7 points

Looks more like a basement?

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It’s just a really odd space, I’ve walked through. There’s a little room up those stairs with a window they used to look out of.

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Ah thanks for clarifying

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Stories like this are why I’m absolutely convinced that if God does exist, they’re the kind of guy that likes to burn ants with a magnifying glass.

I am so sad for him.

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Yep, if a god exists, they’re the biggest piece of shit ever to have existed.

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The only charitable explanation I have for god is that the conditions for life on earth are just a side effect of whatever god was trying to do in another part of the universe entirely.
This galaxy isn’t full of god’s chosen. Merely the forgotten or never intended.

Hell, there’s a theory that the universe we see is actually the inside of a black hole. (It’s not a super widely accepted theory, mind you.) I could accept it as god has already discarded us.

If I believed in the existence of ‘god,’ anyway.

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I suppose it’s all possible, but since there is no evidence to support such claims even if only a thought experiment, I will be continuing my current belief that no god exists or ever has existed.

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“If there is a god, he will have to beg for my forgiveness”

This sentence was found carved into a wall in one of the sheds in a concentration camp.

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Diary of Anne Frank should be mandatory reading and is worth reading multiple times at different stages of one’s life. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl is also up there.

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It used to be. I had to read it in 6th grade.

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5 points

Mandatory isn’t quite the same thing as “sometimes assigned in class”

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Which version would you recommend?

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I’m not sure which is considered the best but these are the ones I’ve read:

Diary of Anne Frank

Man’s Search for Meaning

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