Keeping the theme of absolute weirdness alive:
-"Otto Frank was as complicated and paradoxical as Anne was straightforward and ingenuous. In this biography, we can easily see the charming, lovable, thoughtful, kindly father that his daughter rhapsodized about in her writings. But another, less sunny side to the man that Anne affectionately called her "Hunny Kungha" emerges when we least expect it, sneaking out from between the lines and giving the reader small shocks.The Hidden Life of Otto Frank
The Frank family was a dysfunctional one. Otto was open about the fact that his marriage to Edith Frank was a marriage of convenience from his standpoint, although she was a highly intelligent, attractive woman who was obviously in love with him. His attitude toward her, though unfailingly civil, was so lacking in warmth and affection that even Anne, who didn't get along with her mother, observed that his behavior must be deeply hurtful to Edith. Otto was also remarkably uninvolved with his other daughter, Margot -- so much so that he had no idea that she was keeping a diary, too, while the family was confined to their hiding place -- a diary that was unfortunately never recovered and might have yielded another perspective on this complex famous family.
Moreover, Otto's relationship with Anne, blatantly the apple of his eye, seemed to have been a little too close for comfort, teetering on the brink of inappropriateness. For instance, he confided to her the details of an early, ill-fated love affair that had so devastated him he was unable to have romantic feelings for anyone else. He also took it upon himself to talk openly to Anne about sex and sexuality."
Carol Ann Lee
review by Phoebe Kate Foster
"...teetering on the brink of inappropriateness..."?
Here's Anne Frank through the loving lens of her father, the only member of the Frank family to have survived Auschwitz, and here she is again. And again.
I lost track of the site(s) they came from - but the oddest one, the first one, is from annefrank.org.
I'm not debating the sexualization of children, or the sexuality of children, what I'm saying is there's something hinky about these images, as Travis McGee would have said.
