SOURCE: "Anne Frank's Diary Goes on Trial," in The Sunday Times, London, November 30, 1980, p. 15.

Connell is an English journalist. In the following essay, Connelland Terry report on a trial that took place in Hamburg, Germany, to determine the validity of allegations that Anne Frank's diary is not authentic.

The Diary of Anne Frank is one of the Second World War's most poignant testimonies to Jewish endurance. But is it genuine?

Over the years, right-wing propagandists have made determined efforts to suggest that it is not really the work of Anne Frank—the young girl who spent two years hiding in Amsterdam with her family before being betrayed to the Nazis in 1944.

But the latest assault on its authenticity is the most serious yet: this suggests that certain words in the diary were written with a ball-point pen which was invented in 1951 and so could not have been available...