'She would have been a Belieber': Justin Bieber causes outrage after writing 'tasteless' message in guest book at Anne Frank museum

PUBLISHED: 12:05 EST, 14 April 2013 | UPDATED: 13:22 EST, 14 April 2013

Justin Bieber has caused outrage after leaving a 'tasteless' comment in the guestbook at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.

The 19-year-old singer - who is currently on tour in Europe - visited the famous home where Jewish wartime diarist Frank and her family hid from Nazi persecution for two years during the Holocaust.

After spending an hour touring the home on Saturday, which opened as a museum in 1960, Bieber wrote a message in the guestbook, which read: 'Truly inspiring to be able to come here.

'Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber.'

Comment chaos: Justin Bieber visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam on Saturday and left a comment that has Facebook and Twitter fans outraged

The Anne Frank House staff-run Facebook page shared the singer's comments.

But since the the museum updated its page with Justin's words, the Facebook post has garnered hundreds of comments expressing dismay over the young pop sensation's presumptuous remarks.

Many described it as 'disrespectful,' 'disgusting' and an 'embarrassment to Canadians.'

Belieber battle: Hundreds of people left comments on the Anne Frank House's update about Justin that expressed disgust

From Justin to Anne: 'Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber.'

Hundreds of people took to Twitter to express outrage, branding the singer a 'moron' and 'douche,' leaving several to question whether he actually wrote such a shocking message.

Buzzfeed reports that BBC reporter Anna Holligan received confirmation from the Anne Frank House press office.

The press office commented: 'He was very interested in Anne Frank.'

Handling the situation with grace, they said of his odd note: 'He's 19, it's a strange life he's living, it wasn't very sensible but he didn't mean bad.'

People on Twitter seems to disagree, some even saying it's time to take Bieber to rehab.

One person even tweeted: 'When life gets done with Justin Bieber, I have a feeling it isn't going to be pretty.'

Another wrote in regards to Justin's note in the guestbook: 'I weep for humanity.'

Further driving the point home, an additional shocked Twitter commenter said: 'He has no right to say this.'

Anne Frank wrote her now-famous diary while residing in the house, with the teenager describing it as luxurious compared to other hiding places she had heard about.

The Frank family moved to Amsterdam from German in 1933 - the same year the Nazis gained control over Germany.

By 1940 the Nazi had occupied the Netherlands, leaving the family trapped in Amsterdam.

Not happy: People took to Twitter to express their dismay over the pop star's disrespectful comment in the Anne Frank House guestbook

In 1942 the family went into hiding in the hidden rooms of Otto Frank's office building, as persecution of the Jewish population increased under the Nazi regime.

But after two years the group were anonymously betrayed and were sent to their deaths at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where Anne died of typhus in 1945.

Otto Frank, Anne's father, returned to Amsterdam after the war and discovered her diary had been saved. It was published in 1947, leading to her posthumous fame.

Monument: This statue of Anne Frank stands near her home in Amsterdam, where Justin visited on Saturday and signed the guestbook

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This is one DISGUSTING PERSON, when are we going to treat him as her deserves and not like a prize poodle....he keeps fans waiting his assaults security staff and now shames himself yet again by doing the most stupid and inappropriate comments in a museum book, DOES HE EVEN KNOW WHAT A MUSEUM IS, thats surprised me!!!!!!!!!!!!

- Bramble , Birmingham, United Kingdom, 15/4/2013 04:23

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Cute puppies grow up. Some are mutts, lit he's becoming.

- Pellican123 , Gibsonville, N.C., 15/4/2013 04:22

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Actually he would have been hijacked into leaving a message and has to compose one under pressure. Have you ever been confronted with a guest book at a museum? No - thought not.

- Lagrange , Mesopotamia, Iraq, 15/4/2013 04:21

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He once told a US interviewer that he was really impressed by the Vatican's "Sixteen" Chapel.

- JamesG , Lexington, 15/4/2013 04:16

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If you've never been taught respect, how would you know when to give it?

- shazzbot , handford, 15/4/2013 04:13

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He's an uneducated cretin, what do you expect

- Dubai Exile , Dubai, 15/4/2013 04:11

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To be fair, which young boy of 19 will take the time to visit the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam ? Hopefully one day Justin Bieber will think back with empathy for a young girl who was not allowed to sing out loud and Listen to the radio while she was in hiding !

- Dutchy , Windy city, 15/4/2013 04:08

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Title for Biebers's theme song "All I ever think about is me".

- kate , canada, Canada, 15/4/2013 04:05

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i'm glad that i'm not a belieber.

- bettybob , Liverpool, United Kingdom, 15/4/2013 04:04

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I am not a fan and do not want to appear to be on his side. However, he has since said that he was surprised to learn at the museum that Anne Frank was very interested in, and as up-to-date, on the pop culture of her time as she could be while in hiding. That was on his mind as he wrote in the book. Really don't think he meant to be disrespectful.

- Kelly , PA, 15/4/2013 04:02

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