Margo
Woelk fue reclutada por los nazis para probar la comida
del Hitler. Hitler era vegetariano por lo que el menú incluía siempre
vegetales, los más frescos, con una porción de arroz o pasta. Woelk debía probar la comida con anticipación
para descartar que estuviera envenenada. Al final de la guerra la mujer fue
ayudada por un oficial a volver a Berlín.
En vocabulario: lair
Margo Woelk spent two and a half years in her mid-twenties as one
of fifteen women who tested Hitler´s food
for poison before he ate it himself.
… we knew all
those poisoning rumors and could never enjoy the food.
When Hitler abandoned the lair in 1944, a
senior officer helped her escape back to Berlin…
… the other
tasters were shot by the advancing Russians.
Wölk
was born in Wilmersdorf, Berlin, in 1917. As a young woman Wölk says she had refused to join the League of German Girls, and her father
had been condemned for refusing to join the Nazi
Party.
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| Members of the BDM, 1935 |
She was married
and worked as a secretary during the beginning of the war, but left her
parents' bombed-out Berlin apartment
in the winter of 1941, to relocate to her mother-in-law's home in the East Prussian village of Gross-Partsch, now Parcz, Poland, less than three kilometers away was the Wolfsschanze (Wolf's Lair), German
leader Adolf Hitler's first Eastern Front military headquarters in World War II.
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| The Wolf´s Lair |
As Wölk returned to Berlin, she fell into the hands of the Soviet Army after the end of the Battle of Berlin. For two weeks, they raped her repeatedly,
inflicting such injuries that she was never able to bear children.
Hitler's Food Taster Tells Her Story at 95 Years Old
A 95 year-old German woman is finally telling her
story about her involvement with Adolph
Hitler during World War II. She´s
been silent on the topic for decades.
Margo Woelk spent two and a half years in her mid-twenties as one
of fifteen women who tested Hitler´s food for poison before he ate it himself.
Woelk told The Times in her first
interview:
“The food was
delicious. Only the best vegetables, asparagus, bell peppers, everything you
can imagine. And always with a side of rice or pasta… But this constant fear -
we knew all those poisoning rumors and could never enjoy the food. Every day we
feared it was going to be our last meal.”
Woelk was drafted for civilian service for the SS. After a failed assassination attempt on Hitler in 1944, she was forced to live in an abandoned school
house, along with other women. It was close to Hitler´s Wolf´s Lair, but she never actually saw him.
The women were
forced to taste the food and then assistants would wait an hour to give any
poison time to run its course before serving the food to the dictator.
Woelk may be the only taste-tester to survive the war.
“When Hitler abandoned the lair after 800 days
in November 1944, a senior officer helped her escape back to Berlin by smuggling her on board Joseph Goebbels´ train. She believes the
other tasters were shot by the advancing Russians.”
Woelk tried to bury the memories from her past but now, at the end of her
life, she felt as though she needed to share her story.
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An American
woman managed to surprise Hitler with a kiss at the 1936 Summer Olympics in
Berlin and it did not end well for his security guards.
Braunau is a
pretty Austrian town with an ugly legacy: Adolf Hitler was born here.
Vocabulario
Lair: a place where a wild animal lives.
"The
badgers carried the food back to their lair"
When Hitler abandoned the lair after 800 days…
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