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The Swiss heiress who drove from Geneva to Kabul

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Annemarie Schwarzenbach was a ridiculously glamorous, androgynous Swiss heiress who decided European high society was too boring and fascist. So, she packed up a Ford convertible and drove from Geneva to Kabul, casually inventing the dirtbag road-trip aesthetic while capturing some of the era's most iconic anti-Nazi photojournalism.

The Swiss heiress who drove from Geneva to Kabul
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