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ANNE FRANK'S NAUGHTY BITS

 
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Anne Frank’s diary is being banned from schools because of a reference to genitals.

Great to see you’ve got your priorities right there, fundies.

One of the best means of introducing young readers to the 20th century’s most important lesson — the Nazi era and the Holocaust — perhaps culled from the curriculum because of something a very curious, articulate and precocious girl wrote in her diary.

 

The passage in question:

There are little folds of skin all over the place, you can hardly find it. The little hole underneath is so terribly small that I simply can’t imagine how a man can get in there, let alone how a whole baby can get out!

 

(It wasn’t in the version I read as a teenager, but is in the newer “definitive” edition, restoring cuts her father made to it.)

 

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