Towards the end of World War II , Hitler's fear of being killed was growing after the attempt to kill him with a bomb case carried out by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg his Fear became paranoia. Poisoning was one of the methods that his security services regarded as feasible.To avoid this, a group of 15 girls were forced to taste Hitler's food .
The terrible end of the 15 girls forced to taste Hitler's food
The events were explained by the only surviving taster, Margot Woelk, In 2012, when he was 95 years old, a widow and having overcome the traumas and shame of what he suffered during the war and the Russian invasion of Berlin, he decided to publish his experiences. His companions they were not poisoned, but killed in the worst way by the Russian s.On the one hand, it was Ron forced to work for Hitler as tasters, with the anguish posed by the daily risk of dying intoxicated instead of the dictator and, on the other, were victims of the Russians who treated them as collaborators. A terrible end for these poor girls.
Hitler settled in a place known as « The Wolf's Lair » in Poland (in an area that the Germans called "East Prussia") at the start of the German invasion of Russia.He remained there for almost 800 days, until he returned to Berlin when the red army approached.
Hitler's assistants recruited the girls in the surrounding towns.It was not allowed to say no.Margot, who had always been against Nazism, was at her mother-in-law's house, in Gr oss-Partsch a town a few kilometers away from "The Wolf's Lair".Her apartment in Berlin had been bombed, she had no news of her husband since two years ago she had gone forward and had no other place where to live.The mayor of the town chose several girls to do the functions of food tasters of the Fuhrer .
Margot Woelk told in a television interview German RBB that many of her companions were so afraid to taste the food they cried while eating .The only good thing about Hitler's tasting was that they could eat fresh vegetables and other foods while their compatriots were subjected to the rationing.They did not taste the meat nor the fish since Hitler was vegetarian.Until the failed attack of Clau s von Stauffenberg, every day a bus picks up the girls who were on duty and took them to the den where, approximately one hour before the Fuhrer ate, they tried everything that was going to be served .This time, if something had been poisoned, it was supposed to have already taken effect.After the assassination attempt, they were forced to live in the facilities themselves from which they only came into custody once a week to visit his family.
Shortly before the Russians arrived , a German lieutenant warned Margot and helped her escape by uploading her to a train that was headed to Berlin.Although in Berlin was raped by the Soviets in such a way that it could never have children, survived, and in 1946 it she met with her husband who had been a prisoner.She also met the lieutenant who helped her run away from "The Wolf's Lair." He explained that none of her companions had survived , that they had been shot by the red army .This was the terrible end of the girls who were forced to work tasting Hitler's food and then were killed by the Russians for collaborating with the Nazis.
If you have been interested in this story, you may want to read the post about Irene Sendler the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto.
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