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Salon Kitty: sex & spying in Nazi Germany
Episode 1696

Salon Kitty: sex & spying in Nazi Germany

Nigel Jones tells the story of the brothel that doubled up as a espionage post in Nazi Berlin

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June 25, 202334m 48s

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Show Notes

Salon Kitty was the most notorious brothel in 1930s Berlin. Yet little did its clientele – foreign diplomats and high-ranking army officers among them – know that, while they were cavorting with sex workers, they were also being spied upon by Nazi agents. Nigel Jones tells Spencer Mizen what this story can reveal about the paranoia and petty rivalries that stalked the Third Reich.


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