Anne Frank?

Question

When did Anne Frank and the rest of the people have to go into hiding in the secret annex?

Answer 1

1942

Answer 2

Yes, 1942, as Nazi rule over the Netherlands ceased to have even a cloak of legitimacy. The pre-war Nazi racist theory had called for expulsion of Jews and Gypsies from Europe, and several hundred thousand did leave. Unless they had had the foresight to send their property abroad, they left with nothing; but they were allowed to leave. No one could predict the German victories in the west, so many left for countries that would end up occupied by Nazis. In Denmark there was a way out, and most of its refugee Jews were ferried secretly into Sweden, but there was no such possibility in the Netherlands, a country which had always been neutral and had no reason to fear an invasion -- See Paul Verhoeven's magnificent film Soldaat van Oranje. Families like the Franks who had fled there had no place to escape to when the Germans in fact overran it. Though many were protected by decent Dutch citizens, it was a country under military rule, and those brave Dutchmen could not stand up to the Gestapo, so long as its rule lasted. Anne, I believe, did not end up in an extermination camp but instead died of typhus or typhoid under the deplorable conditions of an ordinary concentration camp, for what difference that makes.

Answer 3

1942.