'I was the perfect Nazi baby' says Jewish woman


In 1935, the Nazis chose Hessy Taft’s baby photo as the cover of their propaganda family magazine – not knowing she was actually a Jew.

For the German photographer who chose a picture of a Jewish child as the ideal Aryan for Nazi propagandists, it was a sly joke. For the child’s family, it became a terrifying ordeal.

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