Hitler's Jewish Baby

In the winter of 1935, a few months after the German government passed the anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws, the Nazi family magazine Sonne ins Haus ("Sun in the Home") sponsored a photographic competition to find "the perfect Aryan child." On Jan. 24, 1935, the magazine published a front-page photograph of the winner, a beautiful 6-month-old baby girl named Hessy Levinsons. Nazi propaganda showcased the baby as "the perfect Aryan baby." Unbeknownst to the judges, Hessy was Jewish.