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Pamela Mabbott's avatar

I wonder why this didn't happen to Coco Chanel?

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Pamela Mabbott's avatar

I've since seen, from a questionable source that Winston Churchill helped her escape . She was a collaborator though, no doubt about it and an ally of the Vichy government.

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Severn Man A's avatar

Indirectly yes, she had connections in the British aristocracy who petitioned Churchill from what I have seen.

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Braden Delamater's avatar

I understand where you’re coming from, and I agree that it was a bad situation all around, but personally “sleeping with the Nazis” isn’t a hill I’d want to die on. Thank you for sharing though!

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JMcG's avatar

Oh, those brave men of France! As soon as they finished licking the jackboots of their conquerors, they turned around and attacked their helpless countrywomen. Such glory!

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Daniel Moran's avatar

The great story by John Cheever, “The Country Husband,” has a harrowing scene of one such public humiliation.

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Pablo's avatar

Considering amount of collaboration with Germans that French did, and the tiny percentage in Resistance, the majority would go bald. It was all some psychological act to wash off the general shame of impotence.

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Michael's avatar

Liar Barbie is gonna get a new haircut.

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Alexandre's avatar

This is what should happen to feminists

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Graham R. Knotsea's avatar

Because commies are vicious psychopaths.

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Where's Mimirsbrunnr?'s avatar

It certainly doesn't seem like Europe was liberated now, and why didn't the article talk about the mass rape by the Russians?

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