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Aug 2022
47m 52s

37 History of Everything: Nazi Sex Spies

Stakuyi
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Salon Kitty was a high-class Berlin brothel used by the Nazi intelligence service, the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), for espionage purposes during World War II. And the story is absolutely wild.

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