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PublisherPegasus Books

ISBN-101639364293

ISBN-139781639364299

eBay Product ID (ePID)18058380264

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Book TitleMadam and the Spymaster : the Secret History of the Most Famous Brothel in Wartime Berlin

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicWomen, Military / World War II, Europe / Germany, Espionage, Prostitution & Sex Trade

Publication Year2023

IllustratorYes

GenreTrue Crime, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorJulia Schrammel, Urs Brunner, Nigel Jones

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight17.6 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2024-442710

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23/eng/20230627

Reviews"Historians Brunner and Jones, along with journalist Schrammel, present the story of a brothel in wartime Berlin, "Salon Kitty," run by Kitty Schmidt, an elusive madam.", After sundown, at a respectable address in Berlin, Nazi libertines went in and out of Salon Kitty, a brothel that was an illicit little toast to the Weimar years. Inside, a single mother from Hamburg popped corks for Hitler's minions and adversaries alike. The S.S. used the louche environment to spy on Kitty's besotted patrons, through mikes in the upholstery and clerks in the basement. The transcripts are lost to time, and we can't be sure whether the sex workers even knew about the side hustle. But the authors of The Madam and the Spymaster listen carefully, sorting through eight years of echoes., Journalists Brenner, Nigel Jones, and Julia Schrammel focus on Heinrich Himmler's spymaster Reinhard Heydrich, who, in 1939, opened a high-end brothel in Berlin and bugged its bedrooms and parlors to capture the pillow talk of its influential clients. A successful madam, Kitty Schmidt, was tapped to run it. The client list included Gian Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law, but just as interesting to Heydrich were German notables. In the vicious world of Nazi Germany, with seven intelligence services vying for dominance, Heydrich was looking for an edge: blackmail was an effective weapon.

Dewey Decimal940.54/8743

SynopsisThe legend of Salon Kitty is well known to historians, filmmakers, cinema goers, and indeed to anyone taking more than a passing interest in Nazi Germany. But until now, verifiable facts have been few, and myths, rumors, and legends have accumulated.|9781639364299|, This extraordinary story of a high-class Berlin brothel--taken over by the Nazi secret service--is one of the last untold tales of World War II. There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final Solution. "Salon Kitty" was the most notorious brothel in the decadent Berlin of the Weimar Republic - the city of "Cabaret." But after the Nazis took power, it became something more dangerous: a spying centre with every room wired for sound, staffed by female agents specially selected by the SS to coax secrets from their VIP clients. Masterminded by Reinhard Heydrich, the spymaster whom Hitler himself called "the man with the iron heart," the exclusive establishment turned listening post was patronised by the Nazi leaders themselves, not knowing that hidden ears were listening. The Madam and the Spymaster reveals the sensational true story of this forgotten part of espionage history. The deep research undertaken by Nigel Jones, Urs Brunner and Dr Julia Schrammel sheds new light on Nazi methods of control and coercion, and the way sex was abused for their own perverse purposes.

LC Classification NumberD810.S8S319 2023