Self-portrait (with Nazi badge between her teeth). photograph by Claude Cahun, c. 1945. Claude Cahun, along with her partner-in-crime, Marcel Moore, tuned in to illegal radio stations for news on the second world war, then disseminated what she learned in pamphlets that inspired hope for the defeat of the Nazis. towards the end of the war, the pair were arrested by the Nazis, convicted of sabotage, and sentenced to death. the sentence was never carried out, but Cahun only survived three years after the war, in part due to her incarceration's impact on her health.













