An investigation reveals who gave the hiding place of Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis

Arnold van der Bergh, un prominent Jewish notary of Amsterdam, could be the informer of Anne Frank and her family. This is revealed by the investigation of an international team that includes a former FBI agent and who has spent six years trying to figure out what happened, who betrayed Anne Frank by revealing to the Gestapo the address of her refuge in the Dutch capital.

The key seems to be in an anonymous note that was given to Anne Frank’s father, Otto Frank, after World War II, and that the investigators located among the files of a police officer.

The investigators conclude that the notary he betrayed the Frank family in a deal with the Nazis so he could save his own having denied that he was Jewish.

Thus, they have concluded, 77 years after what happened, that the notary would have betrayed the Frank family “in self defense”, a theory that at least the young woman’s father himself accepted as valid but did not want to make public for fear of anti-Semitism in the postwar period, according to this team. research still has not been reviewed by independent experts.

To uncover what happened, the investigators reviewed numerous data, lost records and information from deceased witnesses, and “since there is no DNA evidence or video footage in a case this old, you will always have to rely on circumstantial evidence,” but this “Theory has a probability of at least 85%”, as the former FBI agent has defended.

What is the theory based on?

The conclusions drawn from the investigation focus on an anonymous note that was given to Otto Frank. The Jewish Council had drawn up address lists of hiding places with the intention of proving to the Germans that he was cooperating, and as a member of this organization, Van den Bergh could have obtained that file of addresses that he later used to try to protect his family.

As a member of this prominent Council, Van den Bergh seems to have done his best to get a temporary reprieve from deportation.

The direction came into the hands of a German SS officer, who commissioned his people to come August 4, 1944 to arrest the family of Anne Frank, but the researchers admit that there is still a lack of conclusive evidence on how the notary leaked the address and who wrote the anonymous note that convinced Otto Frank of this theory.