In 1943, in the midst of World War II, a U.S. Army propaganda drop over Berlin distributed leaflets bearing gruesome images of Adolf Hitler's face partially obscured by a calf's skull. Those who dared to pick one up would never have guessed that the artist who created that foreboding picture was born in Berlin — or that he was, at that very point in time, embarking on a career that would make him one of the highest paid fashion and advertising photographers of his time.