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Brothel Turned Secret Listening Post
- Salon Kitty was converted into a secret listening post with around 50 hidden microphones in the love rooms and cellar.
- About 20 women acted as SD agents posing as prostitutes and wrote reports after each client encounter.
Surveillance As A Route To Power
- Hydrix sought information not only for ideology but to amass personal power within the Nazi hierarchy.
- Nigel Jones suggests Hydrix aimed to use intelligence to outmaneuver rivals and possibly succeed Hitler.
Kitty Schmidt’s Shadowy Life
- Kitty Schmidt returned from Britain after WWI and built a high-end brothel that became a social hub in Berlin.
- She ran Salon Kitty through the war and died in 1954, after which her daughter kept it open on a smaller scale.