‘Anne Frank house not worth preserving’

The house where Anne Frank wrote her world famous diary while hiding from the Nazis during Word War II world was originally not considered worthy of preservation by the Dutch government according to a report by the German news agency DPA at the weekend.

The article says a letter from the foreign minister at the time, Joseph Luns, said the house on Amsterdam’s Prinsengracht was ‘not a historical monument’ and not remarkable from an architectural point of view.