The women who tasted Hitler’s food … and feared that every meal would be their last: film inspired by the amazing testimony of Survivor sheds light on the fear of the Nazi dictator to be poisoned

It is said that if you have a long spoon with the devil sup, you should have.

But for the women who had to eat for The devil, things were rather more complicated.

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In 2013, the 95-year-old Margot Woelk broke silence for decades to claim that she and 14 other women were instructed to eat Hitler’s food to check if it was safe.

Given that Hitler is one vegetarianWoelk and her colleague tasters are said to be parties on ‘delicious’ meals; Including asparagus and peppers combined with rice or pasta.

But every day Woelk said: “We feared it would be our last meal.”

Now a new film will be based on a novel inspired by Woelk’s remarkable story – which some experts doubted – will be released.

Italian production The tasters will debut this month in German cinemas.

Director Silvio Soldini told The Guardian that his film will show: “How these women are affected, in this ‘small’ world in which they are forced to do something terrible: constantly playing Russian roulette.”

Woelk claimed that she worked as a taste in the ‘Wolf’s Lair’ – Hitler’s heavily guarded command center in what is now Poland – for two and a half years.

‘The food was delicious, only the best vegetables, asparagus, peppers, everything you can imagine. And always with a side of rice or pasta, “she remembered.

‘But this constant fear – we knew all those poisoning of rumors and could never enjoy the food. Every day we feared it would be our last meal. ‘

Woelk claimed that her association started with Hitler after she had fled Berlin to escape allied air strikes.

Her husband was gone in the Wehrmacht – the German army – and she was withdrawn from family members in what was then Rastenburg in Germany.

She said she was set up in the civil service and, in addition to making a taste, was assigned as a kitchen bookkeeper in the Lair Complex of the Wolf.

The widow, who died in 2014, claimed that she never saw Hitler personally. She only saw the German Shepherd Dog Blondie of the dictator and spoke with his SS guards.

Hitler’s Paranoia about his safety came from various attempts made in his life.

The person closest to the success was what is now known as the plot of July 20, or Operation Valkyrie, who saw conspirators, led by the German officer Claus von Stauffenberg, try to kill Hitler with a bomb hidden in a briefcase.

The dictator only survived with minor injuries thanks to happiness and timing.

Woelk remembered the explosion.

“We were on wooden benches when we heard and felt an incredible big bang,” she said.

“We fell from the banks and I heard someone scream:” Hitler is dead! ” But he wasn’t. ‘

In the aftermath, Woelk claimed that the Nazis ordered her to leave the house of her family members and move to an abandoned school closer to the compound.

With the Soviet army in the offensive and the war that went badly for Germany, one of her SS friends advised her to leave the hollow of the wolf.

She said she returned by train to Berlin and hid herself.

Woelk said that the other women in the food tasting team decided to stay in Rstenburg because their families were there and it was their home.

“Later I found out that the Russians shot all the 14 other girls,” she said.

According to a Soviet report of the interrogations of the closest assistants of Hitler, Heinz Linge and Otto Gunsche, the dictator at the end of his life became so paranoid that he demanded his toilet water, as well as the water in which his eggs were boiled, analyzed for traces of poison.

After Hitler’s suicide in Berlin on April 30, 1945, and the fall of the German capital for Soviet troops, Woelk claimed that she was repeatedly raped by the Russians.

She said: ‘The Russians then came to Berlin and got me too.

‘They took me to a doctor’s apartment and raped me for 14 consecutive days. That’s why I could never have children. They destroyed everything. ‘

In 1946 Woelk was reunited with the husband she had believed to death, and the couple lived together until his death in 1990.

Woelk spent her last years almost home -bound in her flat in Germany. Her story first received intense attention in the German media and then worldwide.

Historians have documented how Hitler’s diet on the lair of the wolf regularly contained legumes, while alcohol was completely out of the menu.

Scholar Felix Bohr, whose newest book Hitler’s time documents in the Lair of De Wolf, said that there is ‘no evidence’ for the story of Woelk.

He said to the Guardian: “I spent three years in the archives in investigating Hitler’s time there and none of the reports of secretaries, chefs, servants, military staff or other people who were there – up to 2,000 at a certain moment – called a team of female food tests.”

The cave of the wolf had an ‘extensive’ system to protect the food supply, he added.

But the historian also admitted that there was no concrete evidence that Woelk’s claims were not true.

Author Sven Felix Kellerhoff also founded doubts about Woelk’s story and said that Hitler had two chefs who tasted his food before it was served.

The main character in the tasters is the fictional Rosa Sauer, depicted by Elisa Schlott.

The film has already been released in Italy and will be broadcast later this year in Britain.