Gedenktafel Helmut Newton Berlin
Helmut Newton was born in 1920 as son of a wealthy Jewish family in Berlin button manufacturer under the name Helmut Neustaedter . Until 1936 he attended high school , but that he broke off , after he had already devoted more time to this the swimming, the girls and the photography. He started in the same year at the then famous Berlin photographer Yva (Else Simon Neuländer ) trained as a photographer. After being banned in 1938 they had to close her studio and was one of the victims of Nazism later. At the time , shortly after his 18th Birthday , on 5 December 1938 , Newton fled from the Nazis in Germany to