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From The New York Times: Dutch Publisher Apologizes Over Disputed Anne Frank Book.

The Dutch publisher of “The Betrayal of Anne Frank,” a new book scholars have criticized for putting forward inconclusive findings, apologized for “offending anyone” in an email sent to its authors, and said it would delay printing more copies of the book until further notice.

“A more critical stance could have been taken here,” wrote Tanja Hendriks, the publisher and director of Ambo Anthos Publishers, in the email, which The New York Times has seen.

“The Betrayal of Anne Frank,” by the Canadian author Rosemary Sullivan, which was published in the United States by HarperCollins, received worldwide media attention after its release on Jan. 17, bolstered by a double segment on CBS Network’s “60 Minutes” the evening before. HarperCollins declined to comment for this article, and Sullivan did not respond to emails and telephone calls.

Sullivan’s book is an account of an investigation led by a retired F.B.I. detective that concluded Arnold van den Bergh, a Jewish notary from Amsterdam, was most likely the informant who revealed the Frank family’s whereabouts to the Nazis.

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