A Shameful Secret of World War II: Se xual Slavery in the Axis Armies
Korean Comfort Women held by the Japanese Imperial ArmyThe first scene of my new novel, Hold Back the Sun, takes place in Madam Kitty’s, a posh Gestapo brothel in Berlin. Nazi friends are giving a going-away party for the book’s chief villain, a Japanese Military Attaché. Madam Kitty’s was an actual establishment located at the address I give it in the novel. Its purpose was to ply foreign diplomats with liquor and se x, and then extract secret information from them during “pillow talk.” All the rooms were bugged to capture the conversations on recordings.