Paging Anne Fank....

: "How did it start, Anne? I really need to know this. When the Germans first came. When did you and your father see it for what it really was?
You didn't have television, I know, but were radio programs censored? Did you assume that the silence of your advocates was a strategy - that they were choosing their battles wisely? Did you think that the majority of your neighbors would never let it happen? Did you ignore the hateful rhetoric as the ravings of a few extremists? Did you think if you stayed you would help to keep things sane? And when they took away your civil liberties, did you think, 'That's okay. We have nothing to hide, anyway, this is targeting the criminals.'
Did you think to yourselves, 'We can march in the streets when it really gets bad.' And when it did get bad, did your rich save themselves, and your advocates become fearful and silent, and were your leaders arrested as extremists?
And when they took some away, the gypsies and the homosexuals and the political agitators, without trial or explanation, did you think, 'Well, they must be bad people - and if they are not, they will be set free'? And did you think, 'this is keeping us safer, in the end.' When you realized there were more, did you stay quiet because you thought it would end? Or because you didn't want them to hear you?
Anne, you once wrote ''I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are still truly good at heart..."
Anne, is that why you are dead?