95-year-old shares memories of ‘food tasting’ for Hitler
11 Feb 2013 7:39 AM IST
Margot Woelk, now a 95-year-old woman, says she was the ‘food taster’ of Adolf Hitler for more than two years, and had to taste the dictator's food to ensure it was not poisoned.
Woelk ate fresh fruit and vegetables including asparagus, peppers and peas, and was one of a dozen women Hitler used to protect himself at his Eastern front headquarters, also known as the ‘Wolf's Lair’, the Daily Mail reported.
She was taken there in 1942 when evacuated from Berlin to Gross Partsch - Parcz in modern-day Poland.
Her husband had then gone for fighting. ‘Of course, I was afraid. If the food had been poisoned, I would not be here on Sunday. We were forced to eat it, we had no choice,’ she said.
Woelk ate fresh fruit and vegetables including asparagus, peppers and peas, and was one of a dozen women Hitler used to protect himself at his Eastern front headquarters, also known as the ‘Wolf's Lair’, the Daily Mail reported.
She was taken there in 1942 when evacuated from Berlin to Gross Partsch - Parcz in modern-day Poland.
Her husband had then gone for fighting. ‘Of course, I was afraid. If the food had been poisoned, I would not be here on Sunday. We were forced to eat it, we had no choice,’ she said.
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