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During the war, Chanel became a spy, and an active collaborator for Nazi Germany. In 1943, Chanel was an instrumental part of operation Modelhut (Model Hat), in which Nazi intelligence officers, using Chanel's position of prestige among the British aristocracy, attempted to get a message to Winston Churchill stating that some SS officers ...
Coco Chanel. Gabrielle Bonheur " Coco " Chanel (/ ʃəˈnɛl / shə-NEL, French: [ɡabʁijɛl bɔnœʁ kɔko ʃanɛl] ⓘ; 19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) [2] was a French fashion designer and businesswoman. The founder and namesake of the Chanel brand, she was credited in the post- World War I era with popularising a sporty, casual chic as ...
After France's defeat Dincklage returned to Paris. He began a relationship with fashion designer Coco Chanel, living with her until 1944 in the Hôtel Ritz in Paris. [13] In 1943 he introduced Chanel to Theodor Momm a former army comrade, who supervised French textile production for the Third Reich. [14]
In real life, Dincklage was, in fact, a Gestapo spy, and Chanel did work with the Nazis. Under the occupation, Chanel lived at the Ritz Hotel in Paris, where the Germans used as headquarters.
Chanel loved a Nazi officer named Hans Günther von Dincklage and became a Nazi spy—whose agent code name was Westminster—and went on missions around Europe to recruit agents for the Third Reich.
"Coco Chanel, at the start of the war, was the world's most famous fashion designer," Todd A. Kessler, the show's creator, tells T&C. "She was very wealthy and [had] a lot of status in Paris.
In late 1943 or early 1944, Chanel and her lover, German spy Hans Gunther von Dinklage, undertook such an assignment. Codenamed "Operation Modellhut", it was an attempt involving the British embassy in Madrid and Chanel to influence Churchill, and thereby persuade the British government to negotiate a separate peace with Germany. This mission ...
"The New Look," debuting Wednesday on Apple TV+, examines Christian Dior's connection to the French Resistance and Coco Chanel's role as a Nazi agent in World War II.