Lee Miller in Hitler’s bath. Photo by David E. Scherman, Munich, 1945 Via
Lee Miller sneaks a bath in Hitler’s apartment after the fall of Berlin, 1945. She later explained blithely, “I had his address in my pocket for years.” [Photo by David E. Scherman; source NYT]
“She got Scherman to photograph her, unclothed, in Hitler’s bath,” writes Lucy Davies in The Telegraph. “Her boots are placed in the foreground, covered in the dust of Dachau, which she had visited the day before. The juxtaposition belonged to that Surrealist universe in which dream and coincidence reign.”