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Newly Uncovered Pages From Anne Frank's Diary Reveal Risqué Jokes

She covered them up with brown paper while hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam. But on Tuesday, the texts were revealed.

Inside a secret annex above her father's office, Anne Frank edited passages from her first diary, the book that captured a teenager's experience of the Holocaust. What she hid underneath brown gummed paper on two pages was revealed on Tuesday – five crossed-out phrases, four risqué jokes and 33 lines about sex education and prostitution.

The two pages, the only pages the Anne Frank House.

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