Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Hitler's Bathtub

Lee Miller with David E. Scherman, Lee Miller in Hitler’s bathtub, Hitler’s apartment, 1945, 16 Prinzregenttenplatz, Munich, Germany

War photographer, fashion model, and artist, Lee Miller, was one of the first photographers to enter the camps at Buchenwald and Dachau. On the day of the liberation of the camps on April 30, 1945, and the same day Hitler commited suicide in his Berlin bunker she and fellow photographer, David E. Scherman snuck into Hitler’s abandoned Munich home where Scherman took this photograph of Miller in Hitler’s bathtub.

Read more: Art & Object 

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