"This picture? But...... This is a picture of a boy! Dasco 61 Popov looked at the picture and said in surprise.

Indeed, this is a photo of a boy, which can be seen from the pants worn underneath. The boy in the photo apparently died of lack of nutrition, his face was as dry as a skeleton, and what was even more terrifying was that both of his eyes were pecked by foraging crows, leaving only two hollows covered with black blood, his lips had also been pecked by crows, and some teeth were missing for unknown reasons.

"Yes, but if we only give a picture of the head, who can tell it's a boy?" Scrooge replied disapprehantly, "As for this man and Anne not at all, that's not a problem. The greater the difference, the more outrageous the ill-treatment of Anne in the concentration camps is...... Let's just use this photo to process it. In addition, this child's diary needs to be re-polished, and the current text is too solid, although it is also smooth, but it does not show much talent. This is not going to work, we have to pretend to be a dead George Sand, and of course you don't need to take care of that, ah, Dasco, help me get Greystone here......"

……

A few days later, the New York Times first published in serialized the diary of Anne, a little girl who died in the Shire concentration camp. The language of these diaries is timeless, and they vividly depict what happened to a little girl during the war. The publication of this diary has aroused the attention of the whole United States and even the whole world, the great French writer Zola praised these series of diaries as "having the tension of a beautiful novel", the famous American short story writer O. Henry also praised it as a masterpiece that "comes from the heart and can therefore shock the heart", and the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, after seeing the Russian translation of these diaries, wrote a special article to recommend it to the Russian people. It can be said that the serialization of this diary was a great success.

A week after the diary was serialized in the New York Times, Le Figaro in France, and some newspapers in Germany and Italy began to report on it. Eventually, even British newspapers began to serialize the diaries. Some young people or elderly people who are a little bit of a virgin or a little bourgeoisie even came to Downing Street to demonstrate with signs with Anne's face printed on them, shouting slogans such as "Stop the massacre" and "We are all Anne". Naturally, these reports also put the British government under great pressure, so the British took a two-handed approach.

The first hand, of course, is to stop the further spread of rumors. It consists of two routines, soft and hard. The hard thing is, of course, to ban the spread of rumors outright, and to silence those newspapers and periodicals involved in the coverage for the time being. Of course, the British Empire is a place where there is freedom of speech, and it is of course not good to let the police directly close the publication, but any publication should always be honestly taxed to Her Majesty, right? For example, it is much more effective to ask the tax department to find trouble, or even temporarily close the publication, than to use the police. And to be honest, the execution of the police department has always been compared with that of the tax department, which is simply a scumbag.

As for the second hand, of course, it is the confrontation of public opinion. The first is "refuting rumors", although refuting rumors is always very passive, because according to the definition of some guys who have a hobby and expertise in rumors, the so-called rumors are "far ahead of the prophecy". Leaving aside the "prophecy", the attribute of "being far ahead" alone will inevitably bring about the problem of "spreading rumors and opening your mouth, refuting rumors and breaking your legs". In addition, what is even worse is that there are no rumors circulating in the market at all, at least a considerable part of them are not rumors, and it is naturally more difficult to dispel the facts as rumors.

However, the British Empire always has a way to deal with this kind of thing. In other words, any great power must be proficient in the art of how to refer facts to rumors, and Britain is no exception. The first trick in this is to grasp the details, the so-called "devil is in the details", most of the reports, in order to attract readers, will always use some exaggerated means intentionally or unintentionally, and there will definitely be loopholes in this serious investigation. Moreover, the media must seize the timeliness, which will inevitably lead to some details that have not had time to be scrutinized. This will inevitably lead to more vulnerabilities. The government-leaning media could have seized on such a loophole.

The second common trick is to use rumors to counter rumors. This can be a rumor about the opponent, such as belittling the opponent's character, questioning the opponent's qualifications and conscience, or something; It can also take the initiative to be a pig teammate for the opponent, ostensibly standing on the side of the opposition to the concentration camp, but deliberately creating a lot of loopholes. It's like some fishing texts in later generations.

But these are not avenues, and the real avenues lie in controlling the media's money bags. In the United States, for example, the New York Times would never say a bad word about Scrooge, because all of their money was Scrooge's. And they will never contradict the U.S. government in things like going to war against the Spaniards, going to war against the Filipinos, sending Filipinos to study camps, etc., although they will scold the government or something when they have nothing to do in peacetime, but at this time, they will firmly stand aside with the government, because the government is helping his boss make money at this time. In a sense, the media and the government are the same, they all work for Scrooge, Morgan, and many more carnivores. Generally speaking, it is common for employees to scold each other or something in order to compete for favor, but once the boss needs them to cooperate, they must also "stick together".

In Britain, the basic situation is similar, although it is true that there are some small media outlets that stand on the position of anti-colonialism and shout, but the big media can still grasp the main theme. Moreover, the conquest of the Boers is now in the interests of the vast majority of British financiers, so even the opposition, although it is customary to criticize the government, is not too high-key. So the British government first calmly watched for a day, and then decisively dispatched elite mounted police to quickly restore order in Downing Street. The major media generally took a "I don't see anything" attitude towards the British government's approach.

However, these tactics of the British government can only be carried out within the British Empire, and throughout Europe and North America, there are still waves of criticism of Britain. A month later, the single book of Anne Frank's diary was first released in the United States, and several senators personally attended the release ceremony of this diary, and made a speech violently attacking the evil of colonialism (of course, the one that the United States engaged in in the Philippines is not called colonialism) - parliamentary democracy is good, and many times, when it is not convenient for the government to express its position directly, it can let congressmen go out and talk nonsense.

Keeping up with the rhythm of the United States, the book also began to become popular in the European market, and became the best choice for literary and artistic young people to decorate themselves. Just as many years ago, young people in Germany had to have a copy of "The Troubles of Young Werther" or many years later, a lot of Europeans liked to have Che Guevara's head printed on their T-shirts.

Then, another piece of news broke in the United States, saying that a newly established film company, DreamWorks Pictures, announced that it would shoot a sound film version of Anne Frank's diary.

Unlike the smaller studios that preceded it, the company was clearly well-capitalized (rumor has it that the Boer government-in-exile was a significant investor in the studio.) The company announced that the entire film was shot on a budget of $50,000 and that the film would be two hours long. Such a large investment, such a long length of time, this was simply astronomical at the time when the movie first appeared.

Although there is nothing McDonald in the list of shareholders of this film company, the controlling company is all some messy investment company or something. (What?) You ask the shareholders of these investment companies? Then there are some other banks or something, and then, like peeling bamboo shoots, peel back a few more layers, and finally, you can see the name of MacDonald Ventures, or other companies. However, Mr. MacDonald, as a well-known peaceful opponent of the war and a man of great accomplishments in science and technology, is said to have played a certain role as a technical director in the film. Of course, Mr. Scrooge 61 Mr. MacDonald was not a show-off man, and he never mentioned it. Much of Scrooge's role in what has since become a classic in film history comes more from the memories of Edmundo, the film's director and one of the founders of DreamWorks Films.

"Speaking of the establishment of the film company, it is completely thanks to our actor Vera. My troupe had just finished performing "Cuban Girl" that day, and everyone was in the aftermath. Dress-up. Mr. Buick, the theater manager, was chatting with me when he accidentally mentioned "The Diary of Anne Frank". He said to me, 'Edmundo, did you notice the little girl who was holding the heroine's wedding dress in your last scene?' She looks a lot like the Anne in "The Diary of Anne Frank". ’

As soon as he said this, I really realized that our little Vera really looked a little like Anne. You know, "The Diary of Anne Frank" was in full swing at that time, and the popular Cheng dù was like "Uncle Tom's Cabin" back then, so I immediately thought, why don't I make it into a play? So I got into action, and a week later, there was a dress rehearsal for the stage version of The Diary of Anne Frank.

During the rehearsal, there were also a few audience members, mainly people from the theater, but this time in addition to those in the theater, there were a few people I didn't know. After the rehearsal, Mr. Buick came to me again and said, 'Edmundo, have you ever heard of a sound movie?' ’”