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　　Protection from prosecution

　　In September 1944, Chanel was called in to be interrogated by the Free French Purge Committee, the puration. The committee, which had no documented evidence of her collaboration activity, was obliged to release her. According to Chanels grand-niece, Gabrielle Palasse Labrunie, when Chanel returned home she said, Churchill had me freed.

　　The extent of Winston Churchills intervention can only be speculated upon. However, Chanels escape from prosecution certainly speaks of layers of conspiracy, protection at the highest levels. It was feared that if Chanel were ever made to testify at trial, the pro-Nazi sympathies and activities of top-level British officials, members of the society elite and those of the royal family itself would be exposed. It is believed that Churchill instructed Duff Cooper, British ambassador to the French provisional government, to protect Chanel.

　　Finally induced to appear in Paris before investigators in 1949, Chanel left her retreat in Switzerland to confront testimony given against her at the war crime trial of Baron Louis de Vaufreland, a French traitor and highly placed German intelligence agent. Chanel denied all accusations brought against her. She offered the presiding judge, Leclercq, a character reference: I could arrange for a declaration to come from Mr. Duff Cooper.