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      • Picardie says that Chanel's house on the Riviera hid a wireless transmitter used by the Resistance and was a refuge for Jews attempting to flee France. Documents recently released from the French archives list Chanel as a Resistance member.
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      The truth about Coco Chanel and the Nazis - BBC

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  3. www.bbc.com › culture › articleThe truth about Coco Chanel and the Nazis - BBC

    Feb 20, 2024 · Documents recently released from the French archives list Chanel as a Resistance member. At least one historian has been sceptical of these claims. But a current exhibition at the V&A,...

  4. www.france24.com › en › europeHistorian debunks claims that Coco Chanel served in the ...

    Nov 27, 2023 · Historian debunks claims that Coco Chanel served in the French Resistance. New documents surfaced in September indicating that Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel may have played a double role...

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  6. www.nytimes.com › the-new-look-coco-chanelThe Truth Behind Coco Chanel’s Nazi Ties in ‘The New Look ...

    Mar 5, 2024 · During the war, von Dinklage introduced Chanel to Baron Louis de Vaufreland, a French aristocrat and ruthless Nazi collaborator who in 1941 was already responsible for the deaths of a group of...

  7. www.theguardian.com › fashion › 2023Coco Chanel exhibition reveals fashion designer was part of ...

    Sep 9, 2023 · Coco Chanel exhibition reveals fashion designer was part of French resistance. Previously unseen documents to go on display at V&A alongside evidence of her collusion with Nazis. Jess...

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  8. www.biography.com › history-culture › coco-chanelCoco Chanel’s Secret Life as a Nazi Agent - Biography

    • Chanel dated A German Military Officer
    • Chanel Became Abwehr Agent F-7124 in 1941
    • She Was Outed as A German Spy in 1944

    After the Nazis took over Paris in 1940, Chanel cozied up to Baron Hans Günther von Dincklage, an officer in Abwehr, the German military intelligence. Their romance enabled Chanel to move into comfortable living quarters at Paris' Hôtel Ritz, then doubling as a German headquarters, and kept her firmly entrenched in high society, which also had been...

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    Dincklage introduced his lover to another prominent Abwehr agent, Baron Louis de Vaufreland, who allegedly promised to help Chanel free her nephew in exchange for her service to Berlin. Sometime in 1941, Chanel was registered as Agent F-7124, with the code name of “Westminster,” after her former flame. Tasked with obtaining “political information” ...

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    Sometime between late 1943 and early 1944, with the tide turning against Germany, Chanel was tapped for another mission by General Walter Schellenberg of the SS. Named Operation Modellhut, German for “model hat,” she was to use her personal connection to Churchill, now England’s prime minister, to relay word that many SS senior officers were seekin...

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  9. time.com › 6694793The True Story Behind The New Look | TIME

    Feb 14, 2024 · Chanel let members of the French resistance take over her home in the south of France, known as La Pausa. “Her cellars were used to hide Jewish refugees,” Picardie says. It is true that some...

  10. www.thejc.com › lets-talk › allCoco Chanel was a fashion icon - but she was also a Nazi agent

    Sep 18, 2023 · The strange thing is, when Chanel was arrested by the French resistance for collaboration with the Nazis at the end of the war, her work with them wasn’t mentioned; nor was it when she went...