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Pablo Picasso was living in occupied Paris when a group of Nazi officers searched his apartment on the Rue des Grands Augustins. They spotted perhaps the first photograph of the vast canvas that would come to memorialise the brutality of fascist rule: Guernica. “Did you do that?” Picasso was asked.