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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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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