Sleeping With the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War by Hal Vaughan

Author:Hal Vaughan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fashion, Art, 20th Century, Modern, Architects, Photographers, Artists, Biography & Autobiography, Military, World War II, History
ISBN: 9780307957030
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2011-08-16T00:00:00+00:00

EIGHT

DINCKLAGE MEETS HITLER;

CHANEL BECOMES AN

ABWEHR AGENT

À la guerre comme à la guerre.

—FRENCH PROVERB

IN EARLY 1941, Dincklage left Chanel in Paris. He traveled to Berlin with Baron Louis de Vaufreland. The two men had met in prewar Paris when Dincklage was “the lover of Madame Esnault Pelterie,” the wife of a prewar French aviation pioneer.

In Berlin, Dincklage was singularly honored. He was received personally by Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda minister and Dincklage’s chief when Spatz was at the German Embassy in Paris in 1934. The text of a French counterintelligence report of Dincklage’s meeting with the führer tells about his role as a senior French clandestine agent: “Von D [Dincklage] lived before the war in Paris at rue des Sablons. He said he was Swedish but in reality is German … in Berlin he had an audience with Hitler and Goebbels. He is also very close to [German army commander] von Brauchitsch.”

Dincklage must have found Berlin in a triumphant mood that winter of 1941. German armies had by now run over Western Europe, and Hitler’s Wehrmacht was on its way to conquering Yugoslavia and Greece. Secretly, Hitler was preparing to attack the Soviet Union in the coming spring.

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