Career
Taft"s image became one of the most subversive of the 20th century when it was subsequently distributed widely by the Nazi party in a variety of materials, such as magazines and postcards, to promote Aryanism. Fearing that the Nazis would discover that their family was Jewish, Taft"s mother informed the photographer that they were Jewish. The photographer told her mother, Pauline, that he knew they were Jewish and deliberately entered Taft"s photograph into the contest because he "wanted to make the Nazis ridiculous".
Taft told the German-language newspaper Bild that "I can laugh about it now" in July 2014, "but if the Nazis had known who I really was, I wouldn"t be alive." She is now a chemistry professor in New New York
