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Salon Kitty was a high-class Berlin brothel used by the Nazi intelligence service, the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), for espionage purposes during World War II. Created in the early 1930s by Katharina "Kitty" Schmidt, the salon was taken over by Nazi secret service and senior SS officer Reinhard Heydrich and operated by his subordinate Walter Schellenberg in 1939.
Mar 16, 2018 · Located in a wealthy area of Berlin, Salon Kitty started as just your run-of-the-mill high-end brothel. But during World War II, it became much more than that. Starting in 1939, Salon Kitty became a Nazi brothel. It’s mission: Use alcohol and women to seduce foreigners into spilling secrets that could help the Nazis and seduce Germans into ...
- Kara Goldfarb
Dec 30, 2020 · A new German book, Kitty’s Salon, has sparked the interest of Netflix. The new scriptwriters will have to work hard to beat the notorious 1975 film Salon Kitty, starring Helmut Berger in a ...
- Derek Scally
- Heydrich and Schellenberg
- Kitty Schmidt
- Not Just Any Women
- Salon Kitty’s Future
Heydrich was a high-ranking Nazi during the war and was one of the main leaders of the Holocaust. He was well known for being very serious and never altering his appearance, as well as for being extremely paranoid about those around him. He thought many of the other German officials were not trustworthy. Those German officials that he did keep clos...
Salon Kitty was named after Kitty Schmidt, the madame of the establishment, whose real name was Katharina Zammit. She had been running the salon since its creation in a wealthy part of Berlin. It was known for hosting only the most high-class German dignitaries and those within the Nazi Party, along with the occasional equally high-status foreigner...
Heydrich also needed to hire some top-notch prostitutes. He set his department to the task of finding those young women, making them swear to secrecy. He had high standards for them; they had to be smart, beautiful, speak multiple languages, love men and love the Nazis. The vice squad arrested lots of Berlin’s prostitutes and then weeded through th...
In the summer of 1942, Salon Kitty was destroyed during an air raid and had to relocate. A short time later the Sicherheitsdienst decided to remove themselves from the project and abandon their efforts, as customers were decreasing. Kitty was told to keep quiet or she would be punished. Kitty was very secretive about the events that had transpired ...
Jul 4, 2023 · Kitty, as the authors show, was a real woman, born Kätchen Emma Sophie Schmidt in Hamburg in 1882 to a salesman and his wife. In her early 20s, Kitty worked in Britain as a piano teacher; gave birth to a daughter, Kathleen; and married a Spanish man who later shot himself. After World War I, Kitty brought her daughter back to Germany and ...
John Blake, pp. 320, £22. Kitty’s Salon is the only English-language book about the eponymous wartime Berlin brothel, which was rigged with microphones and surveillance equipment by the SS to ...
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Jul 4, 2023 · Kitty’s life, as well as many significant developments in Salon Kitty’s history, “can only be traced in outline, rather than told in detail,” the authors admit in the ninth chapter of ...
