Jewish baby used in Nazi propaganda dies at 91

nieuwsblad.be (Dutch)

Hessy Levinsons Taft, the Jewish baby featured as an Aryan ideal in Nazi propaganda, has died at 91. Her image was used by the regime without her parents' knowledge, selected by propagandist Joseph Goebbels. Her Jewish parents feared for their lives and fled Germany. Levinsons Taft later revealed her story, highlighting the absurdity of Nazi racial ideology and the dangers of propaganda.


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