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TIL of the Salon Kitty, a high-class Berlin brothel used by the Nazi intelligence service, the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), for espionage purposes during World War II. Notable guests include Galeazzo Ciano (Mussolini's son-in-law), SS General Sepp Dietrich, Joseph Goebbels, and Reinhard Heydrich.

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