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Epic odyssey of the intrepid Vogue photographer who ended up naked in Hitler's bath tub... and inspired Kate Winslet's new film
Adolf Hitler was past caring, but on the day he killed himself with a single gunshot to the head, a 38-year-old American woman brazenly climbed naked into his bathtub, having first wiped her dirty boots...
Adolf Hitler was past caring, but on the day he killed himself with a single gunshot to the head, a 38-year-old American woman brazenly climbed naked into his bathtub, having first wiped her dirty boots on his fluffy white bathmat, and sat there having her photograph taken. Carolyn Burke, author of the authoritative book Lee Miller: On Both Sides Of The Camera, suggests that this was a deliberate nod towards her own modelling career, and her role as muse to surrealists Jean Cocteau and her former lover Man Ray. At around midnight, the BBC broke the news that Hitler was dead, after its monitoring service picked up a solemn announcement on German state radio, which declared that their Fuhrer had 'fallen fighting Bolshevism'.
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