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The Franks' decision to go into hiding was not, however, an unusual one. Of the Jews living in Holland between 1942 and 1943, twenty thousand and perhaps as many as thirty thousand--the estimates vary widely--saw going into hiding as their only alternative to deportation. "We are quite used to the idea of people in hiding, or 'underground,' as in bygone days one was used to Daddy's bedroom slippers warming in front of the fire," Anne noted ..
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On May 10, 1933, National Socialist student groups marched "against the un-German spirit" and burned "un-German writings" in street actions designed to attract publicity. By now it seemed inevitable that the Franks would emigrate to Amsterdam. "When the Jews write in German, they lie," the Nazis had proclaimed. The works of Thomas, Klaus, and Heinrich Mann, of Arnold and Stefan Zweig, of Kurt Tucholsky, Erich Maria Remarque, and Franz Werfe..
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