ABSTRACT
There are all kinds of statements in Anne Frank’s diary that make it obvious that she wanted to be a writer and that she wanted her diary published after World War Two, long before Bolkestein, a minister in the Dutch cabinet in exile in London, broadcast a message to the occupied Netherlands over the BBC, urging his countrymen “to make a collection of diaries and letters after the war” (Paape 162). That collection was made, and it has since grown into the “Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie,” or State Institute for War Documentation, which published the most complete edition of the Dagboeken van Anne Frank (Anne Frank’s diaries) forty-four years after the Bolkestein broadcast.
