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She was one of the few women to be accredited as a war correspondent, and a rising star in journalism in the 1940s. Lee Miller’s reports, letters, and interviews from the hell called “Third Reich” are indeed among the most illuminating portraits about Germany and its people ever written up to this day.

Lee Miller, born in New York in 1907, was discovered as photo model by Condé Nast when she was 20. In Paris, she encountered Picasso and became Man Ray’s student, model and lover. After separating from him in 1932, she established her own photo studio in New York. In 1942, she was accredited as war correspondent for the Vogue magazine. From 1944 on, she began publishing her famous war reportages and photographs. She married the art collector Robert Penrose in 1947 and retired to country life in England, where she died of cancer in 1977.