Amsterdam grants license to cut down Anne Frank’s chestnut tree

A dying chestnut tree that once comforted Anne Frank while she was in hiding from the Nazis is probably going to be cut down.

The Amsterdam, Netherlands, city council ruled in November that the tree is a hazard. This week it gave the owner permission to remove it. The 150-year-old landmark has been attacked by a fungus and is in danger of falling down. Opponents have six weeks to file an objection but that’s considered unlikely.

Read full article: AP via kvia.com, 12 March 2007