On this day 58 years ago, on February 24, 1967 (January 16, 1967 lunar calendar), the Nazi murderer of Anne Frank was sentenced to death. Anne Frank and her diary On February 24, 1967, in a courtroom in Munich, West Germany, two men and a woman finally stood in the dock and were sentenced to death. During World War II, these three men were the Nazi secret police in the Netherlands during World War II. They were indirectly involved in the killing of 140,000 Dutch people. Among those who were gassed by them was Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl. Anne and her family hid in the German-occupied city of Amsterdam from 1942 to 1944 until they were exposed. Anne died in Belsen concentration camp in March 1945, but the Diary of Anne, written during her time in seclusion, had an important impact on the postwar world and was named one of the 100 most influential books of the century.