October 06, 2017 by Diane
One of the biggest cold cases of the 21st Century is the case of who betrayed Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis during World War II. Anne Frank’s family and another family famously hid in a secret annex for two years before they were given away by an unknown person to the Gestapo. The Nazis found them and they were sent to concentration camps. Anne died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and famously wrote a diary documenting her experience hiding from the Nazis. Her father Otto was the lone survivor of the group of eight hiders. Otto was able to piece together much of what happened and had Anne’s diary published. Yet, the Frank family, and many other families who suffered in the holocaust, thought they would never know who betrayed them. Artificial Intelligence (AI) may be a tool that can help solve this mystery.
This case, along with a few others, is strange for a number of reasons. First, the Nazis were known f ...
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