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Story summary
- Hessy Levinsons Taft, the Jewish baby featured on a Nazi magazine cover in 1935, died on January 1 in San Francisco at age 91.
- Taft's image promoted Aryan ideals on a Nazi magazine cover, despite her Jewish heritage.
- Taft's Latvian opera singer parents in Berlin hired a photographer to take her portrait.
- Shocked by the discovery, her parents witnessed the episode that underscored the absurdity of Hitler's racial pseudoscience.
