Lecture 2 - Honouring Spies
Coco Chanel is a legend celebrated for her ground breaking fashion and famous perfumes. While Parisians starved and Jews were shipped off to death camps she lived in luxury at the Ritz in a relationship with a high ranking Nazi, even going on missions to Germany and Spain. On the liberation of Paris she escaped any retribution possibly on orders from Churchill. She knew too much.

Who, however, has ever heard of Rose Valland, the frumpy academic who braved death every day for 4 years at the Jeu de Paume secretly recording and memorising all data relatingto the thousands of art treasures being looted by Goering? It was thanks to her bravery that 600,000 pieces of art were recovered by the Monuments Men.