A food taster for Adolf Hitler, who was appointed to taste the Nazi leader's food before it reached his lips, to make sure it wasn't poisoned, has opened up about her harrowing life.
Margot Wolk, 25 at the time when she was appointed, was one of 15 young women who were employed at Adolf Hitler's heavily guarded Prussian "Wolf's Lair" headquarters during the Second World War, the Independent reported.
She said that she and her young female colleagues would burst into tears and "cry like dogs" because they were grateful still to be alive.
Wolk, who was the only one to have lived to tell the horrors of the lair, said that all her colleagues were rounded up and shot by the advancing Red Army in January 1945 and the food was always vegetarian.
She said that there were constant rumours that the British were out to poison Hitler, who never ate meat and they were given rice, noodles, peppers, peas and cauliflower.
The 96-year-old said that some of the girls would start to shed tears as they began eating because they were so afraid, but they would have to eat it all up. Then they had to wait an hour, and every time they were frightened that they were going to be ill, they used to cry like dogs because they were so glad to have survived.
Wolk added that the security was so tight that she never saw Hitler in person and only saw his Alsatian dog, Blondi.
