Published: 7 June 2019
Last updated: 5 March 2024
Demeaning the memory of the Holocaust? ‘The roast of Anne Frank’ should be shown in schools (Haaretz)
This is a sensitive 30 minutes, compassionate, funny and historically accurate. The roast does everything it can to honour the six million using humour
Uproar over Netflix show in which Hitler ‘roasts’ Anne Frank (Times of Israel)
Actor playing Nazi leader makes concentration camp jokes at expense of young diarist who died in Bergen-Belsen; Amsterdam’s Anne Frank House calls show ‘tasteless satire’
Australian Shoah survivors condemn Netflix episode (Australian Jewish News)
'Media giants have a responsibility': Anne Frank skit stirs debate (SMH)
A show airing on Netflix has drawn the ire of Australian Holocaust survivors but Australian academic Mark Baker, while not defending the skit, said there was a "fine line" between subverting Nazi ideology and trivialising genocide and anti-Semitism.
"What matters is intent," he said. "What makes the Anne Frank episode challenging is that the humour is being directed not only at the perpetrators but at the victim – someone who has become a universal symbol of adolescent innocence."
Photo: Netflix screen capture
