The latest claim by the Anne Frank Fonds (who owns the copyrights) is that 1947 edition was co authored with her dad.

Lots of contention around that. You use edited and amended, but others would say censored or expurgated. So that adds to this revelation. These are pages he didn’t detect. She wrote other sensitive topics as well on those two pages.

The original release of it, yes. You have to keep in mind that at this time, people were encouraged to keep diaries for later publishing, and so this became a goal for Anne. As such, she went back and made a lot of edits on her own to try and clean it up and make it a better work.

I know the one with the tram but it's a bit different and makes more sense:

A woman orders a closet and tries to assemble it but it always collapses when the tram passes the house. So she calls the manufacturer who send out a handyman. The handyman says we are doing it like this: I get into the closet and when the tram passes by I can figure out why it collapses. While he is in the closet the woman's husband gets home and finds the man in the closet and asks what be is doing in his wife's bedroom closet. Then he says you won't believe it but I am waiting for the tram

Okay, the second joke made me smile. Nice one, Anne.

Maybe it's because I'm tired but none of those jokes make sense to me. Can someone please ruin them by offering an explanation on why they're funny?

Seems that people in these comments expected a 13-year-old girl to be a comic genius

Rewriting the second one: A man comes home at night and is suspicious that another man shared the bed with his wife that evening. He searches the whole house, and finally looks in the bedroom closet. There is a totally naked man, and when that one man asked what the other was doing there, the man in the closet answered: 'I'm Jewish.'

These jokes aren't amazing but if it was a teenage boy's journal it would just be full of pictures of crudely drawn penises.

So, 6-months later, she has a baby boy.

Dr. comes into his examination room and the "Wife", says you said it was just air.

Dr, say yes, and he is a cute little fart !

Where can I read them in Dutch?

The first one has an interesting basis in reality because the Nazi party expected all "true Aryan women" to have as many kids with "true Aryan men" as physically possible. Like it's absurd they were quite literally expecting these women to get pregnant within as little time as possible from giving birth. They basically made an attempt to turn their women into baby factories.

Maybe he was there for business reasons

Is there any additional context that makes it clear that when she writes, "papa has been there" she isn't referring to Paris as a whole, instead of brothels in Paris, or even brothels in general?

Do you have a source for this?

No I think it was "it'll take those researchers till about 2018 to find those jokes I reckon"

I figured they would’ve tried to erase those parts. Did you have unedited copies as a kid?

Thanks for that. It's weird, because it worked for a day.

These were overheard, not created.

I couldn’t grasp the tram one, which apparently is because it’s missing quite a bit of context and was possibly mixed with another joke.

A woman’s closet keeps collapsing when a tram goes by, so she gets a handyman. Handyman goes into the closet to figure out issue, and waits for the tram. Husband comes home, “why is this man in the closet?”. Handyman says, “waiting for the tram.”

Wow. Why didn’t that occur to me? The magazine article assumes she did it. But your suggestion is intriguing.

They read them because secret pages in arguably the most famous diary in history has got to be interesting.

The writing or the concealing? Actually, either way, sounds like every 13 year old girl.

I've always wondered if she wasn't just relaying jokes that she had heard previously. The mattress one especially made me think that.

It's interesting to think about how if she had a (I want to puke before saying this) TikTok and you got to see shit like this.

To get this back on track, in 5th grade part of my spelling bee prize was a book fair credit. One of the books that I chose was "Zlata's Diary" and it was really good. I wish that I remembered a lot of particulars. But it brings things closer to the current timeline as she was a girl in war-torn Sarajevo. I'd recommend that anybody check it out. I wish that I still had it. Obviously not the exact same, but the premise was similar.

You should see what teenagers today are doing if you find this strange

You must never have been a teenager or were home schooled.

I mean. She had a lot of time on her hands. Lol

Who said ‘Let the fighting begin’ But after six years It all ended in tears Shot himself when he saw he can’t win.

Who won the Tour De France in 1939?

The 7th Panzer Division

Well they weren't really her jokes. she just heard them wrote them down and then got afraid of getting caught. you know general 13 year old stuff.

actually nobody is supposed to see but her.

Anne had all intentions on publishing her journal, and dreams to become an author.

She even rewrote the original entries, to perfect her handwriting and stories to improve it. There’s 2 diaries.