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Part Two: Coco Chanel: The Nazi Who Invented Fashion

Behind the Bastards

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The End of the Sympathetic Coco

Before Chanel's views on Bolshevism before 1925, Ben Doar tutored her on the evils of communism and confirmed her antipathy toward Jews. This oral anti-Semitism permeated the upper classes between the wars. She is quoted as telling Paul Moran while an exile in Switzerland in the winter of 1946 at St. Maurice: I have seen young women ruined by these awful queers. They will use any means to destroy a competitor in re-conventions on a woman. The queers want to be women, but they are lousy women. Oh my gosh she's a real piece of shit. Yeah, for RIP.

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