Bernard Taper
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In 1956, Bernard Taper joined Thurgood Marshall, the legendary lawyer for the N.A.A.C.P., for a meeting in Georgia about ending racial segregation in Southern schools.
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Bernard Taper’s account of his 1950 visit with the imprisoned photographer Heinrich Hoffman, who took thousands of pictures of his friend Adolf Hitler during the Third Reich. “Hitler was not an easy person to photograph,” Hoffmann said.