It was Otto Frank's discovery of his daughter Anna's diary which secured her legend and brought him fame. Yet the full story of Otto Frank has never been told. Born into a prosperous German Jewish family, a decorated German soldier in the First World War, Otto was the model of a fully assimilated European Jew. This biography tells Otto's story, of the horrors that befell him and his subsequent recovery. The author also solves the final mysteries surrounding the family's period in hiding.