'I was Hitler's food taster': Woman who had most dangerous job in Nazi Germany reveals how she cried at end of every meal - because she had survived
Margo Wölk, left, had one of the most dangerous jobs in Nazi
Germany - tasting Adolf Hitler's food to ensure it hadn't been
poisoned. The 96-year-old, from Berlin, was one of 15 women given the
deadly task and has recalled how some of her colleagues would 'shed
tears' as they ate, fearing the meal could be their last. Hitler, right,
only ate vegetarian meals, she said. Ms Wölk managed to escape in 1944,
but the horror of the war was far from over. She was later captured and
confined by Russian soldiers who raped her for 14 days.
Ms Wölk recalled an attempt on Hitler's life on 20 July 1944, when a group of German army officers tried to detonate a bomb inside his lair.
'We were held there and raped for 14 days. It was hell on earth. The nightmare never goes away'
- Hitler's food taster Margo Wölk
She said: “We were sitting on wooden benches, and suddenly we heard and felt this incredible big bang.
'We fell off the benches and I heard someone shouting, ''Hitler is dead!'' But of course he wasn’t.'
As a result of the assassination attempt, almost 5,000 Germans were executed by the Nazi's and Ms
Wölk was moved to the another building, where he job continued.
After being helped by an SS officer, Ms Wölk fled to Berlin in 1944. But the horror of the war didn't end there for Ms Wölk. Berlin capitulated to the Russian army in 1945, and her life took a turn for the worse.
'I was Hitler's food taster': Woman who had most dangerous job in Nazi Germany reveals how she cried at end of every meal - because she had survived
- Margo Wölk became a food taster after moving in with her mother in 1941
- She lived near Adolf Hitler's Wolf Liar, and was pressured to take the job
- Ms Wölk told how women would 'cry like dogs' after surviving the meals
- And how after escaping, she was later confined and raped for 14 days
- The 96-year-old widow is the only surviving Nazi food taster
Eating was a game of Russian roulette for Margo Wölk - because every mouthful of food could have killed her.
Although
grateful for the bland vegetarian meals she was given, the 25-year-old
and her colleagues were not being fed out of generosity.
Ms
Wölk was one of 15 women employed at Adolf Hitler's Prussian
headquarters during the Second World War to taste the Nazi leader's food
to ensure it had not been poisoned.
Adolf Hitler, pictured here eating with his
mistress Eva Braun, employed 15 women to taste his food because he
feared he might be poisoned
Margo Wölk said some of the women she worked
with would cry through their meals because 'they were so afraid' they
might die as a result
In an interview with Berlin's RBB
television channel, the only surviving meal-tester who is now a
96-year-old widow, recalled how the women would burst into tears after
each meal because they were grateful to still be alive.
Because
of 'constant rumors the British were out to poison Hitler', he never
ate meat, and his meals would consist of rice, noodles, peppers, peas
and cauliflower.
Ms Wölk
said of the experience: 'Some of the girls started to shed tears as they
began eating because they were so afraid. We had to eat it all up. Then
we had to wait an hour, and every time we were frightened that we were
going to be ill. We used to cry like dogs because we were so glad to
have survived.'
Ms
Wölk became a food taster by accident after taking refuge at her
mother's Partsch home, which happened to be next door to Hitler's Wolf's
Liar. She had been bombed out of her Berlin apartment in 1941 - after
her husband Karl had been drafted into the army - and was forced by the
mayor of the town to take-up the deadly job.
Ms Wölk, now a 96-year-old widower, is the only surviving food taster and still lives in Berlin
Each day
she was picked up by a guard and driven to a school building to test
Hitler's food. Despite her position, Ms Wölk never saw Hitler. She was
however, raped by one of his guards.
Ms Wölk recalled an attempt on Hitler's life on 20 July 1944, when a group of German army officers tried to detonate a bomb inside his lair.
'We were held there and raped for 14 days. It was hell on earth. The nightmare never goes away'
- Hitler's food taster Margo Wölk
'We fell off the benches and I heard someone shouting, ''Hitler is dead!'' But of course he wasn’t.'
As a result of the assassination attempt, almost 5,000 Germans were executed by the Nazi's and Ms
Wölk was moved to the another building, where he job continued.
After being helped by an SS officer, Ms Wölk fled to Berlin in 1944. But the horror of the war didn't end there for Ms Wölk. Berlin capitulated to the Russian army in 1945, and her life took a turn for the worse.
She
told the German television programme: 'We tried to dress up as old
women, but the Russians came for me and the other girls all the same.'
She
added: 'They cut open our dresses and dragged us into a doctor’s flat.
We were held there and raped for 14 days. It was hell on earth. The
nightmare never goes away.'
Ms Wölk was left unable to bear children. 'I always wanted a daughter. When I reached 50, I thought, if had a daughter she would be 25 now. But sadly that never happened.'
Ms Wölk was left unable to bear children. 'I always wanted a daughter. When I reached 50, I thought, if had a daughter she would be 25 now. But sadly that never happened.'
A
British officer helped Ms Wölk recover and she awaited news of her
husbands fate. He appeared at her doorstep in 1946, but nothing was the
same again.
Having
being imprisoned in a war camp, he weighed just 45kgs and was barely
recogniseable. Ms Wölk too struggled with nightmares and the pair later
separated.
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