Otto Frank , the only member of Anne Frank ’s sept to hold up the Holocaust , spent tenner trying to place the person who tippytoe the Nazis off to the confidential apartment where the household was hiding . The discovery — onAugust 4 , 1944 — resulted in the arrests of all eight occupants , and their subsequent confinement in concentration summer camp . But a novel theory from the Anne Frank Houseproposesan alternate variant of the events : They might have been regain by prospect , The Washington Postreports .
The currently assume version of events is that an anon. phone call to the Germany Security Service ( Sicherheitsdienst , or SD ) notified Nazi authorities about the presence of the Franks . But research worker at the Anne Frank House say this earphone call may never have occurred . There was another reason for the SD to seek the location : illegal body of work and ration coupon fraud took office at thebuildingOtto Frank ’s company possess , which was home to a Camellia sinensis business and a furniture company at the meter , in addition to the Secret Annex . The investigator who plant the moveable bookcase that led to the Franks ’ manse may have simply been hunting down the great unwashed who were committing ration fraud , rather than specifically looking for Jews in concealing .
In the trend of look for the building for evidence of these law-breaking , the SD might have found the bookcase and discovered the Franks . This hypothesis is partially based on the fact that the three men known to have been involved in the search and subsequent arrest were not regularly involved in chase after down Jews , but were more often involved in arresting both Jews and non - Jews for criminal body process and in sequester jewellery , furniture , and more from those deported to the concentration camps .
The paper [ PDF ] put forth by the Anne Frank House does n’t rule out the possibleness that the crime syndicate in the Secret Annex were indeed betrayed , but just place forth another possible route of investigation for research worker to pursue .
[ h / tThe Washington Post ]
