Admit It, You Wondered About Picasso Collaborating

Picasso remained in Paris during the Nazi occupation; although a supporter of the French Communist party in later life, people have wondered why he wasn't dragged off to the camps.

Not a Resistance fighter himself, this Independent story on war-era letters suggests that he took considerable risks to support the French Resistance.

Part of the general story is that even the Nazis, dragging off minor poets along with everyone else to Auschwitz, were sensitive to criticism about killing world-famous artists.