Margot Woelk

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Margot Woelk (born December 27, 1917 in Berlin-Schmargendorf ; † 2014 ) was a German taster of Adolf Hitler . She was one of a group of fifteen young women in 1942 who had to test Hitler's food for toxins in Wolfsschanze . She was the only surviving contemporary witness of this group.

Life

Woelk was born in Schmargendorf, a district of Berlin . She reports that her father refused to join the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), for which he was judicially convicted, and that she also refused to join the Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM). Woelk had been married since 1939 and worked as a secretary at the beginning of World War II .

In the summer of 1942, at the age of 24, she fled her bombed-out family home in Berlin and moved to live with her mother-in-law in Groß-Partsch in East Prussia . Wolfsschanze’s Fuehrer's headquarters was two and a half kilometers to the west . As soon as she got there, the SS took her , along with the other young women, to a barrack building in the nearby Krausendorf . Since there were rumors that the Allies wanted to poison Hitler, the women had to sample lunch samples for Wolfsschanze. Every morning the young woman was picked up from her in-laws. However, it was only used when Hitler was present. After the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , security measures were tightened; the food tellers were no longer allowed to live at home, but were taken to an empty school near Wolfsschanze during the week. When the Red Army was only a few kilometers away, a first lieutenant helped Woelk escape to Berlin. After the war, she learned from him that the other food tippers had been shot by Soviet soldiers. In Berlin, Woelk went into hiding with a doctor who hid her. When SS soldiers appeared in the office and looked for the fugitive, he denied them and thus saved her life. But when she came back to Schmargendorf, she was raped by soldiers of the Red Army for 14 days so that she could no longer have children. It was not until 1946 that she saw her husband Karl, whom she had believed dead, with whom she spent the next 34 years.

According to an article by Sven Felix Kellerhoff in Die Welt , Hitler had no direct taster. However, Margot Woelk does not claim to have been directly in Wolfsschanze. The preliminary costing took place outside. Presumably, only samples of food deliveries were tasted.

It was not until “a few months after her 95th birthday” (December 27, 2012) that she revealed her role as Hitler's taster, which was also kept secret from her husband.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ di Francesco Gironi: L'esercito delle assaggiatrici di Hitler, che nel viveva terrore di essere avvelenato ( it ) Gente . April 7, 2018. Retrieved August 2, 2018.
  2. ↑ Staff: Rosella Postorino e quelle donne "assaggiatrici" dei cibi del Führer ( it ) Corriere della Sera . April 22, 2018. Retrieved August 2, 2018.
  3. ^ Hitler's food taster. ( Memento from December 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved from fr-online.de on August 3, 2013.
  4. ↑ Hitler's Food Taster Margot Woelk Tells Her Story , April 26, 2013
  5. ^ Hitler's food taster - fear of death with every bite. Retrieved from einestages.spiegel.de on October 9, 2013.
  6. ↑ Hitler in private: Did the Führer really have food tippers? Die Welt, September 16, 2014
  7. ^ Film Hitler's taster , broadcast by rbb on September 16, 2014.
  8. ↑ Hitler's food taster feared each meal would be the last. The Boston Globe , April 27, 2013, accessed May 30, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Woelk, Margot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German secretary, taster for Adolf Hitler
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Schmargendorf
DATE OF DEATH 2014