Exhibit looks at war from female perspective
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A young American woman soaks in Adolf Hitler’s bathtub, her muddy boots staining his bath mat, and an official portrait of the Fuehrer sits on the tub’s edge.
The woman is Lee Miller, the only female combat photographer in Europe during World War II. She is pictured in Hitler’s Munich apartment on April 30, 1945, by fellow war correspondent David Scherman.
The image is one of the highlights of a new exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum, “Lee Miller: A Woman’s War,” ending on April 24, 2016.
“This was actually taken on the day that Hitler committed suicide, although Lee Miller didn’t know that until after the event,” said Hilary Roberts, research curator of photography at the museum, who put together the show.
Shortly before, Miller had toured and photographed the Dachau concentration camp. She and Scherman had then made their way to Munich, by this time under US occupation, and headed for Hitler’s apartment, where they spent the night with a group of other people, the curator said.
“The key objects in the photograph are Lee Miller’s boots on Hitler’s bath mat, which when she arrived was pristine white, and when she left was covered with dirt from Dachau,” she said.
Miller walked away with more than just a souvenir snapshot of herself in Hitler’s tub. She also filched a few of his mistress Eva Braun’s personal belongings, which are on view in the exhibition: a smiling portrait of Braun, her powder compact and her large Art Deco-style perfume bottle.
Before the war, Miller was a model, a Surrealist photographer, and a fashion photographer. Yet her concentration camp pictures are among the ones she is most famous for. The show displays a few, including one of a group of women at Dachau who were forced into prostitution.
The exhibition’s focus is Miller’s depictions of women in Britain and elsewhere in Europe during and after the war.
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