On this day, 19 March 1933, German Jewish photographer Gerta Pohorylle (better known as Gerda Taro) was arrested by the Nazis in Germany and interrogated about a supposed communist plot to overthrow Hitler. She was ready known to authorities as a member of a communist youth group who was involved in distributing anti-fascist leaflets. After two weeks’ detention she was released, she managed to escape the country using a fake passport and was sheltered by communists in Paris before heading to Yugoslavia. She later became famous photographing Republican forces during the Spanish civil war.
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