Madeleine Johnson is that kid who, when everyone else went out to play, hung around to hear her parents and friends talk about “the war”; tales of rationing at home in the U.S., her father’s time as a Navy medical officer and her Uncle Norman’s experience in the Battle of the Bulge.
When 120 glass slides of the 1934 Nuremberg Nazi party rally turned up among Madeleine’s family’s collection of vacation and travel slides, family stories came together to produce At Hitler’s Picnic; a lifetime fascination with Albert Speer, academic work on art history and the history of photography
and three decades of writing for publications including The Financial Times and The Journal of Art.