Salon Kitty: Sex and Espionage in the Third Reich

For several years, an international team of historians has been investigating what lies behind the myth of the “Kitty Salon”—a center of international espionage created by Nazi leaders based on a mid-level brothel in Berlin. Who was the notorious Kitty Schmidt—and why did her “salon” continue to operate after the war? What were Heydrich and Schellenberg counting on—and what did they achieve? How did an island of “Weimar Berlin” survive in Hitler’s Germany—and what transformations did it have to go through? What was everyday sexual life like for the citizens of the Third Reich, and how did the voyeuristic Nazis try to regulate the market for sex-related services?

“The Kitty Salon” is not only an investigation and a gripping reconstruction of one of the striking episodes of European history in the last century, but also a real encyclopedia of plots and facts concerning the “other side of the Third Reich.”