--- description: Former LIFE photographer David E. Scherman talks about taking his famous picture of Lee Miller in Adolf Hitler's bathtub in 1945 Munich. title: Lee Miller: The Woman in Hitler's Bathtub, Munich, 1945 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a796739528a35b5/6987605d428a9ea89bcc47f4/141013-lee-miller-bathtub.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Woman in Hitler's Bathtub: Lee Miller, Munich, 1945 by [Ben Cosgrove](/author/ben-cosgrove/) ## Ben Cosgrove Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 6, 2014 5:30 PM CUT  Lee Miller in Adolf Hitler's bathtub, Munich, 1945. Lee Miller in Adolf Hitler's bathtub, Munich, 1945.David E. Scherman—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images by [Ben Cosgrove](/author/ben-cosgrove/) ## Ben Cosgrove Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 6, 2014 5:30 PM CUT In May 1993, former LIFE photographer (and, later in his career, a senior editor at the magazine) David E. Scherman told John Loengard about making this famous portrait of Lee Miller in Adolf Hitler’s bathtub. Miller, a fashion model-turned-war correspondent and photographer, was born in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and died in England as Lady Penrose, having married the British artist and poet, Sir Roland Penrose, a few years after the war. According to Scherman (as quoted in [John Loengard’s _LIFE Photographers: What They Saw_](http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/life-photographers-john-loengard/1114270250 "undefined")), the bathtub picture came about like this: --- > “” --- ---  Lee Miller in Adolf Hitler's bathtub, Munich, 1945. David E. Scherman—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3502547/lee-miller-the-woman-in-hitlers-bathtub-munich-1945/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3502547/lee-miller-the-woman-in-hitlers-bathtub-munich-1945/"},"headline":"The Woman in Hitler's Bathtub: Lee Miller, Munich, 1945","datePublished":"2014-11-06T17:30:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:07:26.538Z","description":"Former LIFE photographer David E. Scherman talks about taking his famous picture of Lee Miller in Adolf Hitler's bathtub in 1945 Munich.","url":"https://time.com/3502547/lee-miller-the-woman-in-hitlers-bathtub-munich-1945/","keywords":["photography","World War II","LIFE Magazine","1945","Munich"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a796739528a35b5/6987605d428a9ea89bcc47f4/141013-lee-miller-bathtub.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ben Cosgrove","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ben-cosgrove/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a796739528a35b5/6987605d428a9ea89bcc47f4/141013-lee-miller-bathtub.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Lee Miller in Hitler's Bathtub, 1945","caption":"Photographer Lee Miller in Adolf Hitler's bathtub, Munich, 1945.","creditText":"David E. Scherman—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3502547/lee-miller-the-woman-in-hitlers-bathtub-munich-1945/","name":"The Woman in Hitler's Bathtub: Lee Miller, Munich, 1945"}}]}] ```