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Salon Kitty: sex & spying in Nazi Germany

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

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. (Ad) Nigel Jones, Urs Brunner and Dr Julia Schrammel are the authors of Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich (John Blake, 2023). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kittys-Salon-Spying-Surveillance-Third/dp/1789466148/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=&tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.

0:05.0

A bit of a different thing going on this week.

0:07.3

You've been immature and you've lied.

0:10.3

And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.

0:13.9

I was trying to manipulate you.

0:15.7

Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.

0:18.1

I know, I'd be like, are you joking?

0:20.6

I don't know.

0:21.7

I guess you'd have to ask. Someone that has sex. Someone that has sex. Right. And remember,

0:27.5

it's just between us. There are some things you should always check, like the hygiene rating

0:34.4

on your local takeaway, the setting on your razor, and whether the party actually

0:39.3

is fancy dress. The other thing you should check is your Experian credit report, especially if you're

0:45.7

looking to borrow money. It lets you understand what lenders see, so you can increase your chances

0:50.9

of getting the best deals. It's dead easy to check it and completely free.

0:56.6

See it in seconds. Download the Experian app today. Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming.

1:02.4

Hi-ya. So, Benny has really blossomed this term. You're telling me, he outgrew his bike.

1:07.9

We sold it on eBay. Oh, that's not quite what I meant. It's free to sell on there. Free to sell? Easy too. Sold Benny's bike. Your guitar. My jacket. You sold my guitar? Shall we talk about Benny? When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say you on it's eBay. Things People Love. T's and

1:28.5

Cs apply, exclusive vehicles. Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations

1:37.7

from BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed.

1:48.7

Thank you. and BBC history revealed. Salon Kitty was the most notorious brothel in 1930s, Berlin.

1:54.5

Yet little did its clientele, foreign diplomats and high-ranking army officers among them,

2:00.7

know that while they were cavorting with sex workers,

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