Margot woelk hitler biography

Margot Wölk was a German secretary who was among 15 young women who, in 1942, were selected to taste German leader Adolf Hitler's food at the Wolf's Lair in.
Margot Wölk, whose surname was sometimes spelled 'Woelk', was born on the 27th of December 1917 in Wilmersdorf, in Berlin.
Hitler's food taster shares her story.

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Writing Her Hidden Life

As I point out in my Author’s Note for the book, the idea for Her Hidden Life came from an Associated Press article published in April 2013. The true story of a woman, Margot Woelk, who tasted Adolf Hitler’s food to protect him from poisoning captured my imagination and spurred my desire to write the story. Mrs. Woelk had kept her former job a well-kept secret until she was ninety-five.

For years, I wanted to pen what I called, for lack of a better term, “a holocaust novel.” As time progressed, however, I felt I lacked enough familiarity with the literal and cultural subtexts of that tragedy to write about it with authority, despite extensive research. I also came to the realization that I could offer little to an already distinguished body of work that existed in many mediums, including books and film. One only has to think of Night by Elie Wiesel, or the films Schindler’s List, and The Pianist. To match the excellence of such heart-wrenching stories seemed too daunting a task. But when I read the AP article, I realized that Her Hidden Life wou

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Margot Wölk

German secretary, Adolf Hitler's personal food taster

Margot Wölk (sometimes Woelk; 27 December 1917^[1] – 2014) was a German secretary who was among 15 young women who, in 1942, were selected to taste German leader Adolf Hitler's food at the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia for two-and-a-half years to confirm that it was safe.^[2] She was the only one of the 15 to survive World War II, and her background as Hitler's food taster was not revealed until a newspaper interview on her 95th birthday in December 2012.^[3]

Early life

Wölk was born in Wilmersdorf, the inner city locality of Berlin, in 1917.^[2] As a young woman Wölk said she had refused to join the League of German Girls (Bund Deutscher Mädel or BDM), the girl's segment of the Hitler Youth, and her father had been condemned for refusing to join the Nazi Party.^[2] 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-

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Hitler’s food taster breaks her silence.

Sixty-eight years after his suicide in the Führerbunker beneath the smoking rubble of Berlin, the life of Adolf Hitler remains an enigma. Lingering questions and conjecture surround his psyche and just what drove the Nazi dictator to undertake a world war and commit genocide on a scale unsurpassed in human history. Other topics of continuing interest to historians and to the casually curious include his sexual orientation, relationship with his neice Geli Raubal and the possibility that the young woman was murdered, the idea that he actually had Jewish ancestors, and even his dietary habits.

With respect to his diet, the Führer has long been known as a teetotaler and strict vegetarian. Hitler reportedly never partook of alcohol and shunned meat entirely. It has been suggested that he might even have intended to turn Germany into a vegetarian nation after victory was assured during World War II.

A few months ago, Hitler’s daily dietary demands came to the fore once again when 95-year-old Margot Woelk, a food taster for the Führer for 21/2