Nazi Brothel of Spies: ‘Heydrich’s Sexual Fantasies Got Mixed With Wartime Military Tasks’

Top Nazi officials turned Kitty Schmidt’s Berlin brothel into a Nazi spy base ■ ‘Most of the Nazi party leaders were young men with a sex drive. They knew what men at that age needed,’ says co-author of a new book on the case

Soon after Adolf Hitler took power in 1933, Kitty Schmidt began planning her escape from Germany. The founder and manager of a high-end Berlin brothel, she wired money to her three Jewish friends who had fled to London. She hoped to open a successful brothel.