Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust2004

Anne Frank:
[from The Diary of Anne Frank] I think that the world may be going through a phase, the way I was with mother. It'll pass. Maybe not for hundreds of years. But some day...

Michael Berenbaum:
Toward the end of "Anne Frank", she says what is emblematically American.

Anne Frank:
I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are really good at heart.

Michael Berenbaum:
The reality is you can't come out of understanding the Holocaust by saying that you believe that people are good at heart. People may be good at heart, but the Holocaust is certainly no manifestation of that.