SS-Oberscharfuhrer Karl Silberbauer arrests fourteen year-old Anne Frank, in Amsterdam, Holland, for being Jewish. Frank’s father had applied to the United states to emigrate, but was denied by immigration quotas and regulations.
Postscript: Seven months later, Frank died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, in Bergen, Germany.
[added 8/8/2022] Thanks to Jim Lorenz for this entry.
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References:
Why Germans Supported Hitler, Part 1.
www.fff.org/freedom/fd0703a.asp
Anne Frank – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank
The day of the arrest.mht
www.annefrank.org/en/Anne-Franks-History/Discovery-and-arrest/The-day-of-the-arrest/
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