Salon Kitty
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Salon Kitty was a high-class Berlin brothel used by the Nazi intelligence service, the Sicherheitsdienst, for espionage purposes during World War II.
Giesebrechtstrasse 11, Berlin; April 2013
The brothel's madame Katharina Zammit (Kitty Schmidt, 1882–1954), left, with her daughter, 1922
Salon Kitty's undercover operation chief, Walter Schellenberg
Although married, Reinhard Heydrich made a number of visits to Salon Kitty.
Walter Schellenberg
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Walter Friedrich Schellenberg was a German Schutzstaffel functionary during the Nazi era who rose through the ranks of the Sicherheitsdienst to become one of its highest-ranking officers. Following th
Salon Kitty
…by Katharina "Kitty" Schmidt, the salon was taken over by Nazi secret service and senior SS officer Reinhard Heydrich and operated by his subordinate Walter Schellenberg in 1939. The brothel was overtly managed by original owner Kitty Schmidt throughout its existence. The plan was to seduce top German dignitaries and…
Heinrich Müller (Gestapo) (front row, to the left) and Reinhard Heydrich and SS-Oberführer Heinrich Fehlis (leader of SD and SiPo in Norway) to the right. Also SS-Hauptsturmführer Hermann Kluckhohn, SS-Sturmbannführer Walter Schellenberg, Rudolf Schiedermair, and other SS police officers at Ekeberg cemetery for German soldiers in Oslo during Heydrich's visit to Norway, 3–6 September 1941.
Himmler, 1942