Nazis' 'perfect Aryan' really was a Jewish girl

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Nazis' 'perfect Aryan' really was a Jewish girl

The newlyweds came to Berlin to make it big. In 1934, just after Adolf Hitler took control of Germany, the young woman became pregnant with a child who would soon become known as the "perfect Aryan."


The photo was everywhere. It adorned a Nazi magazine that held a contest to find the "perfect" Aryan baby and was later splashed across postcards and storefronts.


Less well known, however, was that the "Aryan" girl was actually Jewish.

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Hessy Levinsons Taft, a retired chemistry professor at St. John's University, New York, has an amusing story to tell. When she was only 6 months old, her photograph was selected by the Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels to represent the “perfect Aryan baby”. Her cherubic face with chubby cheeks and wide eyes graced the cover of a popular Nazi family magazine Sonne ins Haus or “Sun in the House”, and she appeared on cards and posters across Nazi Germany. Unknown to Goebbels, Hessy Levinsons was a Jew.

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https://www.amusingplanet.com/2020/0...woman-who.html


https://www.inquirer.com/philly/ente...wish_girl.html

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https://www.yadvashem.org/blog/jewis...ropaganda.html

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Interesting story, also lends credence to Judaism isn't a race or ethnicity, but simply a religion.