Eva Braun, the woman who had sex with that guy who arrested an estimated 100,000 gays and helped nearly 10,000 to their deaths (while castrating and experimenting on them), appears in this 1937 blackface photo captioned “Me as Al Jolson,” a nod to The Jazz Singer‘s white actor who regularly appeared in blackface. [via]
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Dick
I’ll bet that photo had Der Fuhrer rolling in the aisle.
Truthful
Okay… but why is this on Queerty?
divkid
well thats the inspiration for galliano’s next collection taken care of then.
thanks queety, always sooo fashion forward.
alan brickman
it was the style of those times…Al Jolson anyone??…
CJ Maciejeski
Was Adolph the photographer? I mean…says a lot to me, if hitler was dressing his wife up as a black man….
QuestionAll
She must have been living in kooky Berlin at the time.