Coco Chanel 'was a Nazi agent during Second World War'

[cali]

By Henry Samuel, Paris

9:00PM BST 16 Aug 2011

Chanel was feted the world over as a pioneering fashion icon who changed the way women dressed and thought about themselves.

Her life has been the subject of countless biographies and films, which have charted her extraordinary career but also her darker side as a Nazi sympathiser and collaborator.

However, according to Sleeping With the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War, the creator of the mythical Little Black Dress was more than this: she was a numbered Nazi agent working for the Abwehr, Germany's military intelligence agency.

After sifting through European and American archives, author Hal Vaughan, a Paris-based American journalist, found the celebrated designer had an Abwehr label: Agent F-7124. She also had a code name: Westminster, after her sometime lover with whom she spent weeks salmon fishing in his estate before the war.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/world-war-2/8704910/Coco-Chanel-was-a-Nazi-agent-during-Second-World-War.html

[gateley]

1. That does it! No more $8,000 Chanel suits for me! nt

[Poll_Blind]

2. Salmon fishing? Is that what the kids called it back then?

:shrug:

PB

[PoliticAverse]

3. "Is that a salmon in your pants or are you just glad to see me?" n/t

[Poll_Blind]

4. From googling her diary, she indicated that nomatter how bad the fishing was, she always returned...

...with a big red snapper!

BTW, the woman pictured is neither Coco Chanel nor a Nazi. I can't vouch for the snapper.

PB

[ashling]

5. Chanel #5th column?

:shrug: