The Betrayal of Anne Frank by Rosemary Sullivan

Author:Rosemary Sullivan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2021-11-13T00:00:00+00:00

The Cold Case Team could find no explanation for why Silberbauer changed the story he told Huf about the caller. What is consistent is that in the three official statements Silberbauer supplied to the Austrian authorities (in August 1963, November 1963, and March 1964), he never said that the call was placed by a warehouse employee. In fact, he asserted that he’d never been made aware of who had reported the Frank family, nor whether the caller had been Dutch or German, male or female. That stark contradiction of Huf’s article left the team in a bit of a quandary as to who was more believable, Huf or Silberbauer.

Could Huf’s version of what Silberbauer said be true? The authors Jeroen de Bruyn and Joop van Wijk made an excellent point: Silberbauer’s claim that the traitorous phone call occurred half an hour before the arrest eliminates the warehouse manager, Willem van Maaren. The team’s analysis of all available data has the raid occurring at approximately 10:30 a.m. Van Maaren always arrived at work at 9:00 a.m. All public telephone kiosks in the streets had been eliminated on German orders years earlier. The only phone Van Maaren could have used was located in the front office, but Bep, Miep, and Kleiman had been there all morning.19 The only other possibility is that he used a phone in one of the neighboring businesses. The Cold Case Team were confident that if that had happened, given the notoriety of the case, someone from that business would have eventually come forward.

The complete Silberbauer interview did not become available to the public until twenty-three years later, when it ran in the Dutch weekly newspaper De Groene Amsterdammer in 1986.20 It was interesting, but it didn’t answer the most important questions: Had Silberbauer actually been told by his superior SS Lieutenant Julius Dettmann who the caller was? Or had he just been grandstanding for the young reporter Huf in one last bid for notoriety?

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