1 day ago · Hessy Levinsons Taft, who as an infant appeared on the cover of a Nazi magazine in Germany promoting her as the ideal Aryan baby, a distinction complicated by the fact that she …

Hessy Levinsons Taft (born Hessy Lewinsohn; 17 May 1934 – 1 January 2026) was a Jewish German who was featured as an infant in Nazi propaganda after her photo won a contest to …

4 hours ago · Hessi Levinsons Taft holding the cover of the Nazi magainze Sonne ins Haus, with her baby photo depicted as the 'perfect Aryan child.' Credit: Mike Segar/Reuters

Hessy Levinsons Taft, who appeared on the cover of a Nazi magazine as an infant despite her Jewish parentage, has died at 91. Taft died on New Year’s Day at her home in San Francisco, …

The Ironic Victory: How a Jewish Baby Became Hitler’s ‘Ideal Aryan’ In the annals of history’s most profound ironies, few stories carry the weight of poetic justice quite like that of a Jewish …

Hessy Levinsons was born in 1934. When she was six months old, Hessy was taken to a leading Berlin photographer to have her portrait taken. A few months later this picture appeared on the …

23 hours ago · In 1935, Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of propaganda, chose a baby photo to depict the ideal Aryan. The child was Hessy Levinsons Taft. But there was a twist: The baby …