HRP: Boise building memorial based on Anne Frank myth

Michael A. Hoffman II, Editor
Published by the The Campaign for Radical Truth in History
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

The Saga of Robert Boatman:
How One U.S. Executive Stood Up to the Anne Frank cult

Robert H. Boatman is that type of accomplished individual whose presence in our ranks we in revisionism used to described as being "rare"--he has a career, position and a profession, yet still defies the Reigning Myth and speaks out.

But Mr. Boatman's example is no longer so rare. In these heady days, he is being emulated far and wide. The cracks and fissures in our de facto state religion are erupting like a dam built at the fore of Mount St. Helens.

While serving as communications and public relations consultant to Rep. Helen Chenoweth (R-ID), Mr. Boatman submitted an op-ed piece which was published last month on the editorial page of Idaho's largest metropolitan newspaper, the "Idaho Statesman" in Boise:

IDAHO STATESMAN- July 1998:

Boise building memorial based on Anne Frank myth
by Robert H. Boatman

When a 50-year-old snapshot of a sickly teenager from halfway around the world appears on the front page of The Statesman, you know someone's political agenda is stirring. The perpetuation of the Anne Frank myth by gullible and guilt-ridden crybabies is a slander of the truth and a slap in the face of history.

Despite the Disneyesque fairy tale that the little left-wing ladies of the Boise Education Association would have all the hapless schoolchildren in their charge believe, here are some hard facts:

It has been proven beyond the shadow of any doubt that the girl known as Anne Frank died of disease (as The Statesman correctly pointed out), not at the hands of Nazis or anybody else. The girl's sister died from the same disease years earlier. At the end of the war, Anne Frank's father was found well cared for in a German hospital where German doctors had been treating him for a health problem. In all probability, he was suffering from the same typhus that killed both of his daughters.

It was Anne Frank's father who later "discovered" the so-called Diary of a Young Girl, "typed" it up, published it and presented it to the world. The elder Frank thereby made millions of dollars for himself and became the darling of leftist terrorist groups like the Jewish Defense League and the Wiesenthal Center for providing them with enough propaganda material to last half a century to date.

Non-PC scholars have long considered the infamous Diary a work of fiction authored by the girl's father. No less a scholar than Dr. Robert Faurisson of France has compiled a mountain of evidence establishing that the diary is a literary hoax from beginning to end.

In 1981, the West German police laboratory at Wiesbaden was called in at the direction of the court investigating the matter to test the allegedly original, hand-written version of the diaries. Frank refused to allow the diaries out of Switzerland, so the judge ordered the Wiesbaden experts thither. They determined, as reported in Der Spiegel at the time, that parts of the diary were written with a ballpoint pen -- a technology invented only after Anne Frank was dead and buried.

So now a little group of ill-informed do-gooders wants to spend $1.6 million on a memorial to this exercise in propagandic wizardry. And The Statesman thinks it's front-page news. Forget that it has absolutely nothing to do with Idaho or anything Idahoans have any reason to be interested in.

Forget that the proposed memorial's granite wall will be balanced precariously on nothing more than the flimsiest evidence of any truth whatsoever. Not so surprising in this age when the president of the country goes on national television, looks into the eyes of the American people, wags a stern finger at us, says like some TV-rerun schoolmarm, "I want you to listen to me!" and then proceeds to lie through his teeth.

Everybody knows Clinton is lying -- about Lewinsky and Whitewater and selling U.S. military secrets to the Red Chinese Army and everything else -- and most people simply don't care. They would rather go out and build a bronze replica of a falsified book in honor of a petty wartime melodrama that never happened than screw up their courage and face the facts. Perhaps it's a sign of our times. In a nation of cowards, clever lies are easier to swallow than the iron words of truth.

The predictable storm of outrage burst forth as a result of the publication of the preceding. Instead of congratulating him for his originality of thought and courage to dissent, Mr. Boatman was denounced in the usual playground singsong. And Congressman Chenoweth promptly fired him.

Spokesman Review (Idaho) July 24, 1998:

Anne Frank story called a fabrication
Chenoweth fires consultant who wrote article

BOISE--U.S. Rep. Helen Chenoweth has fired a campaign consultant who wrote an article published in a Boise newspaper charging that Anne Frank's diary was a hoax and saying a proposed Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial in Boise shouldn't be built.

``Helen was profoundly saddened at what he had to say,'' said Chenoweth's campaign manager, Jim Gambrell. ``Her feelings are it is proper that a monument to Anne Frank be erected. Monuments are symbols, and this monument will be a symbol of our determination to oppose the kind of inhumanity and disregard for human life that all the victims of the Nazi Holocaust knew only too well.''

Boise communications consultant Robert H. Boatman had been writing and producing radio commercials for Chenoweth's re-election campaign. Chenoweth's campaign finance reports show the campaign paid Boatman $1,305 on June 16 for ``creative services.''

Boatman's article, headlined ``Boise building memorial based on Anne Frank myth,'' stunned the human rights group that in June launched a $1.6 million fund-raising drive to build a human rights educational park in Frank's memory along the Boise River.

The article, a guest opinion that ran on the Idaho Statesman's editorial page, claimed that Anne Frank died ``of disease ... not at the hands of the Nazis or anybody else.'' It called her story ``a petty wartime melodrama that never happened.''

...The memorial and human rights park was conceived after a huge outpouring of support when an Anne Frank exhibit showed for a month at Boise's historical museum in 1995. Forty-six thousand people from across the state -- 5 percent of the state's population -- visited the exhibit.

`It was so popular, and there was such a demand to continue this type of education,'' said Mary Peterman, spokesman for the Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Center. The human rights group has raised $375,000 so far.

Mr. Boatman is a HOFFMAN WIRE reader. I asked him for a response to Chenoweth, some type of critique or reply to her for having fired him for merely expressing his informed opinion.

With the kind of chivalry that the best people in our Cause consistently exhibit, Mr. Boatman declined. Instead, he shared with your editor the following press release, in defense of Rep. Chenoweth and exposing a hidden component within the organized opposition to her re-election, led by her Democratic rival Dan Williams:

Press Release of Robert H. Boatman:
I have all the respect in the world for Congressman Chenoweth. She is justifiably one of the most respected Republicans in Washington, D.C., a true defender of the Constitution, and has accomplished far more for the people of Idaho than the local media will ever admit.

I couldn't care less if someone wants to build a memorial to Anne Frank, though I fail to see the relevance of it here in Idaho. I do believe that anyone who is asked to donate money to such a project should know that, based on the objective evidence, they are likely the victim of a hoax and are simply spending their money to carry on a long-running propaganda campaign.

Perhaps those members of the Hollywood Jewish entertainment community who have shown such an interest in Idaho politics - Rob Reiner, Oliver Stone, Tom Cruise, Michael Douglas, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, et al - and who currently give vast amounts of money to Dan Williams, Richard Stallings, Bill Clinton and the Democratic National Committee could use some of those dollars to build an Anne Frank memorial in Boise instead.

In fact, if they spent only a tiny fraction of the money they currently use to finance admitted terrorists like Irv Rubin of the JDL they could build a franchise chain of little Anne Frank memorials all over the country.

I'm not being anti-Semitic here, I'm simply being frank. In today's climate of absurd political correctness, there are those who think anyone who so much as utters the word "Jew" is automatically a bigot. Such is not the case.

Anyone involved in politics knows that Jews represent a voter bloc which is far more homogeneous than other demographic "special interest groups" such as African-Americans, Hispanics, single women between the ages of 18 and 35, male heads of households, et cetera.

I know the press would like to tag Helen with the "racist" epithet, but look at the facts. Don't you find it interesting that all of the out-of-state Jewish money pouring into Idaho politics is going to liberal Democrats while it's one lone conservative Republican who is standing up for their purported interests? -- End Press Release --

Bravo, Robert Boatman, who epitomizes the hundreds of thousands of free-thinking dissidents who make their home in Idaho, last bastion of American independence. Mr. Boatman may be contacted at: Interboat@aol.com

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Two examples of handwriting attributed to Anne Frank. The texts are dated four months apart. Text above: June 12, 1942 -Text right: Oct. 10, 1942