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Margaret Woelk
German food taster

Margaret Woelk

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Margaret Woelk was a food taster for Adolf Hitler from 1941 to November 1944. She was one of about a dozen known women and the only survivor of the group whose job it was to protect Hitler from assassination attempts via poisoning.
During World War II, Woelk was drafted into the German civilian service and assigned for the next two and a half years, as a food taster and kitchen bookkeeper at the Wolf's Lair Headquarters complex, located a few miles (kilometers) outside of the East Prussian town of Rastenburg (now Kętrzyn, Poland). Woelk never saw Hitler in person; only his German shepherd Blondi and his SS guards, who chatted with the women.
She escaped during the withdraw of the Wolf's Lair during the advance of the Soviet Red Army when Hitler's Eastern Front headquarters was abandoned. The remaining food testers are believed to have been executed by the Russians.

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