Justin Bieber criticized for hoping Anne Frank would've been a 'belieber'

By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, TODAY

Singer Justin Bieber stirred controversy over the weekend for claiming that Anne Frank, who wrote movingly of her years spent hiding from the Nazis, might have been a fan of his.

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Staff of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, where Frank and family hid from the Nazis until they were betrayed in 1944, posted on Facebook that Bieber visited the landmark building.

The staff noted that Bieber signed the museum's guestbook with, "Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber."

Facebook readers were not happy with Bieber's assumption.

"She would've been a WHAT?" wrote Kevin Garcia Leon. "That little idiot is way too full of himself. She's an important historical figure so show some respect."

"Way to turn an inspiring moment into something about yourself," wrote Meghan Mausteller.

According to the Facebook page, fans waited outside the Anne Frank House to see Bieber, who spent an hour in the museum and was in The Netherlands for a concert.

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