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The dangerous life of Hitler’s taste testers: ‘They could die at every meal’

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which runs at Theatre Row through May 21, is inspired by the little-known troop, one of whom finally told her harrowing story in 2013 at age 95. “Young women, forced to be in a room together, with nothing else to distract them except for the fact that they could die at every meal,” playwright Michelle Kholos Brooks, told The Post. “If that isn’t a situation ripe for drama, I don’t know what is.”Added the writer: “Just when you think you’ve heard every frickin’ horrible thing about Hitler.”Margot Wölk, who died in 2014, was a secretary when she started working against her will as one of the gourmet guinea pigs at 24 years old.

After her parents’ Berlin apartment was destroyed by Allied bombs, she moved to Gross-Partsch (now Parcz, Poland) to stay with her mother-in-law.

Her husband Karl was at war. She had lost contact with him and believed him to be dead. Her life shattered, Wölk was quickly selected by the town’s mayor to be a food taster for the nearby “Wolf’s Lair” — the Nazis’ headquarters on the Eastern Front.

Women were brought on after the Nazis became convinced that the British wished to poison Hitler. In 1944, Claus von Stauffenberg’s Operation Valkyrie — a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler and wrest control of Germany from the Nazis — considered poisoning as a tactic, but scuttled that plan because they knew of the tasters.Wölk, however, claimed later that she was no Nazi.

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