I am concerned that the investigation reinforces the antisemitic stereotype that Jews were complicit in their own suffering and that it will divert attention from a much more important and far more troubling question: Why did so many people in occupied Europe collaborate with the Nazis?
AMSTERDAM — A cold case team that combed through evidence for five years in a bid to unravel one of World War II’s enduring mysteries has reached what it calls the “most likely scenario” of who betrayed Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank and her family. Their answer, outlined in a