Iconic designer Coco Chanel tried to betray Jews Nazi trading partners

  Coco Chanel 1113 once tried to betray his Jewish business partners in writing during the Nazi occupation of France by German officials , arguing that their business was Jewish property and should be collected and distributed it to know a new book.

In the book " The Secret of Chanel No. 5 ," a story about his legendary fragrance , says author Tilar Mazzeo how Jewish brothers Pierre and Paul Wertheimer, who had teamed with Gabriel "Coco" Chanel to make perfumes Chanel were forced France closed when the German army to escape in.

The attempt to take over the company Chanel was obtained from the Wertheimer brothers, who spent before leaving Paris to participate in industrial Felix Amiot, who have decided they d to avoid during the occupation had defeated confiscated.Chanel 1115

The company is still owned a majority owned by the Wertheimer family - now brothers Alain and Gerard Wertheimer, who , with an estimated $ 19200000000 , two of the richest men in the world in combined assets.

The injustice of Chanel should be no surprise . In an article in the New York Times in 2011, she was named no less a " wretched man " all because of his collaboration with the Nazi regime , which included a well-documented affair with a Nazi officer . A 2011 book, " Sleeping with the Enemy : Coco Chanel 1118 's secret war ," argued convincingly that they also worked as an agent of Nazi intelligence.