Kitty’s Salon 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 women agents specially selected by the SS to coax secrets from their VIP clients. Masterminded by the spymaster Hitler himself called ‘the man with the iron heart’ Reinhard Heydrich, architect of the Holocaust and the most sinister Nazi of them all, the exclusive establishment turned listening post was patronised by the Nazi leaders themselves, not knowing that hidden ears were listening.

One of the last untold stories of the Second World War, -  previously only known via it’s portrayal in the  Nazi sexploitation soft porn movie ‘Salon Kitty’, (1976), - Salon Kitty’s no less sansational true history is now revealed by historians Nigel Jones, Urs Brunner and Dr Julia Schrammel.  After years of painstaking research and investigation, the story they tell sheds new light on Nazi methods of control and coercion, and the way that they used and abused sex for their own perverse purposes.

Salon Kitty’s story is set in the wider context of  the Third Reich’s cynical and hypocritical attitude to sex and prostitution;  - a mix of repression and cynical exploitation; of the vicious feuds between it’s competing espionage agencies, and of the cruel choice faced by the Salon’s owner, Kitty Schmidt herself, when compelled to collaborate and herself become ‘a spy in the house of love’. At once a deconstruction and reconstruction of a hidden history, ‘Kitty’s Salon’ is a gripping true story of historical detection that sheds a harsh light on one of the darkest last secrets of the Third Reich.