The madam and the spymaster
the secret history of the most famous brothel in wartime Berlin
The madam and the spymaster
the secret history of the most famous brothel in wartime Berlin
Book - 2023
Revealing the sensational true story behind a forgotten part of espionage history, this book takes readers behind the doors of "Salon Kitty," a high-class Berlin brothel that, when the Nazis took power, became a dangerous spy center, staffed by female agents specially selected by the SS to coax secrets from their VIP clients
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Pegasus Books,
2023.
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| Edition: | First Pegasus books cloth edition. |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The madam and the spymaster : |b the secret history of the most famous brothel in wartime Berlin / |c Nigel Jones, Urs Brunner, and Dr. Julia Schrammel. |
| 250 | |a First Pegasus books cloth edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Pegasus Books, |c 2023. | |
| 300 | |a xv, 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 520 | |a Revealing the sensational true story behind a forgotten part of espionage history, this book takes readers behind the doors of "Salon Kitty," a high-class Berlin brothel that, when the Nazis took power, became a dangerous spy center, staffed by female agents specially selected by the SS to coax secrets from their VIP clients | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-295) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Authors' foreword -- 'Fucking for the Führer': The birth of Salon Kitty -- Love for sale: Se and prostitution in the Weimar Republic -- Love suppressed: The Nazi crackdown on Eros -- The end of love: Sex in concentration camps, military brothels and the Lebensborn project -- The hypocrites: Sex and the secret lives of the Nazi elite -- Twisted love: How Nazis used real and fake sex scandals to achieve total power -- The rivals: Heydrich, Canaris, and the competing Nazi police and intelligence agencies -- Spies in the house of love: Converting a brothel into a spy centre -- On the trail of Kitty Schmidt: The quest for a woman of mystery -- Kitty Schmidt and the Nazis: Survivor, opportunist or collaborator? -- Aftermath: The fate of Kitty Schmidt, her brothel and her family -- Salon kitsch: The 'establishment' in historical literature and on screen -- Conclusion: Researches and results -- Afterword: 'Is this still a brothel?" -- Chronology -- Brief biographies: Prominent people in the Third Reich linked with Salon Kitty. | |
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