That Anne had to share her tiny bedroom with Dr. Dussel. Ewwww! How could her parents have allowed such a thing? This has been mentioned in books about Anne; that obviously her parents still saw her as a child and not a physically developing girl who should have privacy. Dussel should have been put in Peter Van Daan's corner under the stairs, and Peter should have gone upstairs with hisparents.
shareI'm sure they were more concerned with their safety than how inconvenient it was for Anne to share a room with Mr. Dussel.
shareYeah, that many people in such a small space for so long? I doubt the word "privacy" was in their vocabulary.
shareI think it would have been much more proper for Otto Frank to sleep in the room with Mr. Pfeffer at night (with Otto & Edith having separate beds, and with Margot in their room at night, it's highly doubtful that Mr. & Mrs. Frank were having "relations" anyway...) Anne could of still used the room in the day time. Everyone always referred to Anne as being a "little child", but having a 13-14-15 year old girl sleep in the same room at night with a grown man just isn' right - ick!
shareI agree, or move peter in Annes room and Anne into peter's room
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Why is it "ick"? They weren't *beep* not even sharing the same bed.
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I'd have to reread the book and roster everybody that was really there, but I believe anybody could have mad better match ups in rooms/space.
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Did the film depict who stayed where accurately?
shareActually, no. it didn't.
http://www.annefrank.org/en/Subsites/Home/Virtueel-huis/#/map/
here is a video of the 3D reproduction on AnneFrank.org https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SJgudCq540
I looked this up again and yah. No, this movie has MASSIVE flaws.
Peter was on the same floor as his parents, not with the Franks.
So the Franks and Dr. Pfeffer were on one floor, the Van Pels (Van Daans) were on the next floor. Then the attic.
Dumbest post ever?
Well, maybe not ever but certainly stupid.
"Let's hear you call Boris Karloff a c_ocksucker."
I can't recall if it's really in the diary but, in one of the various movies they said that Peter got his own room because where he was he had to do battle with rats that often crawled down from the attic -- and as a young man that wasn't a problem but putting a young woman in that same situation was(?).
shareWell all I can say is read the Diary as it was written too find out what actually happened in the attic and stop guessing at what they should have done by todays standards by which I'm guessing are North American.
"Gentlemen, This is a War Room, There's no fighting allowed in Here!"
North American standards? You mean it's normal for teenage females to room with adult males where you're from? Color me glad to be from North America. I'm also thankful for my North American education. I learned all about punctuation in my North American school.
shareMargot was more ''womanly'' and more developed.Logically the worry would be that Margot being with Mr. Dussel was more risky. The fear of pedophiles was not so strong as it is today. Margot had bigger breasts and was just at the tip of being a full fledged woman. Anne was a much less temptation, unless Mr. Dussel was a serious pedophile, which he wasn't.
shareIt wasn't about pedophilia.
They knew Mr. Pfeffer. There was never a worry about him molesting ANY of the three children.
Bottomline, it was propriety. Anne was still a younger child, and was much more appropriate for an adult roommate that Margot.
It had nothing to do with temptation.
When you're starving, sex is the farthest thing from your mind. American military men like John McCain, who were imprisoned in North Vietnam for years, have said that all they thought about in captivity was food. When they found worms in their rice, they ate the worms.
The fugitives had more food in the attic than they received in Auschwitz, to be sure, but not that much more. In fact, I'm not sure that if they had never been arrested, they would have survived the winter of 1944-45. That was the cruelest part of the war for the Dutch people. With the Nazis denying them food and fuel, the Dutch were so hungry that they dug up tulip bulbs and ate them, and burned their furniture to keep warm.
Miep and her helpers would have been doing well to feed themselves, never mind eight other people.