(Model’s Hat) was conceived, whereby Chanel would attempt to use
her personal influence with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
to conclude a separate peace with Germany. Yet owing to the pneu-
monia that Churchill had contracted following the Tehran Confer-
ence, he was allowed no visitors, and the plan had to be abandoned.
At the end of the war, Dincklage was first held in British captivity but
then joined Chanel, whose disgrace caused her to relocate temporar-
ily to Lausanne, Switzerland. Their relationship ended about 1950.DOHNÁNYI, HANS VON (1902–1945). A leading jurist and Abwehr
member of the anti-Nazi resistance, Hans von Dohnányi was born in
Vienna on 1 January 1902, the son of professional Hungarian musi-
cians. After completing his legal studies, he emerged as a civil ser-
vant, first in Hamburg, then in Berlin at the Reich Ministry of Justice
beginning in 1929. His early opposition to the Nazi regime, strength-
ened by his marriage to the sister of theologian Dietrich Bonhöffer,
led him to assemble a list of party misdeeds and to participate in the
attempted military coup of September 1938. The following year saw
his transfer to the Abwehr under the sponsorship of Hans Oster.
One of Dohnányi’s most notable endeavors (code name u7) was
the enlistment of Jews as presumed agents in order to facilitate their
escape. Arrested on 5 April 1943 for alleged currency violations,
Dohnányi was initially released but later placed in the Sachsenhausen
concentration camp. Following the failure of the conspiracy of 20
June 1944, papers were found that linked him conclusively with the
resistance. An SS court found Dohnányi guilty of high treason on 6
April 1945; he was hanged three days later at Sachsenhausen.
DOMASCHK, MATTHIAS (1957–1981). An East German dissident
who died mysteriously while in the custody of the Ministerium
für Staatssicherheit (MfS), Matthias Domaschk was born in Gör-
litz (Saxony) on 12 June 1957. Trained as a precision engineer, he
worked at the Carl Zeiss state-owned company in Jena and was an
active member of the local Protestant church’s youth group. His pro-
test of the expatriation of Wolf Biermann in November 1976 led to
his first arrest and questioning by the MfS. Undeterred, Domaschk
traveled to Prague the following year via motorcycle to meet with
members of the newly formed oppositional group Charter 77. While
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