In 1935, a Jewish baby's adorable picture was used by Nazi propagandists in a campaign to show the "perfect" Aryan baby.
When Hessy Taft was six months old, her face was used as an example of a perfect Aryan baby. The one wrinkle, which the Nazis didn't know at the time, was that Taft was actually Jewish.
"I can laugh about it now," Taft, now 80, told the German newspaper Bild. "But if the Nazis had known who I really was, I wouldn't be alive."
If it had been a mere mistake, it would be funny enough, but there's more:
Musicians Pauline and Jacob Levinsons had moved to the city from Latvia to pursue careers in the classical genre in 1928, but found out that, due to their religion and the Nazis despicable agenda, they could not obtain any work. Jacob would find a job as a door-to-door salesman to make ends meet.
At that time, Pauline, his wife, decided to take their six-month-old daughter, Hessy, to a renowned Berlin photographer, Hans Ballin, to have her photograph taken.
She was shocked to see, a few months later, that the picture ended up on the front cover of Sonne ins Hause, a well-known Nazi family magazine.
Levinsons confronted Ballin immediately, who assured her that he knew that the family was Jewish, and that he had purposefully submitted the photo for a contest looking for the "most beautiful Aryan baby."
“I wanted to make the Nazis ridiculous,” the photographer had said to her.
It appears that he succeeded.
The photo of Hessy won the contest and was even handpicked by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
Please forward to your least favorite White Supremacist. It'll make their day!