In Fiction
In 1976, these events were turned into the highly controversial film, Salon Kitty, directed by Tinto Brass and starring Helmut Berger as Walter Schellenberg (renamed Helmut Wallenberg) and Ingrid Thulin as Kitty Schmidt (renamed Kitty Kellermann.)
The 1981 BBC comedy drama Private Schulz, about a German fraudster and petty criminal's unwilling World War 2 service in the SS, prominently features the Salon. In the first episode, Schultz has been given the job of manning a listening post in the brothel's basement and recording the conversations picked up by the hidden microphones.
The concept of the Gestapo using a brothel full of spies to find traitors within the Nazi regime has been recycled several times in various European nazi exploitation films.
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