Margot Wölk  Margot Wölk (sometimes Woelk; 27 December 1917April 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. 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. Wölk was born in Wilmersdorf, the inner city locality of Berlin, in 1917. As a young woman Wölk says she had refused to join the League of German Girls ("Bund Deutscher Mädel" or "BDM"), the girl's version of Hitler Youth, and her father had been condemned for refusing to join the Nazi Party. 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. According to Wölk, allied bombs had damaged her Berlin apartment, which stood in knee-deep water. Her husband Karl was at war, though having heard nothing from him in two years, she had long since assumed he was dead. In Gross-Partsch, she stayed with his parents in a house with a large garden. 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. The complex, which would become one of several "Führerhauptquartiere" (Führer Headquarters) located in various parts of occupied Europe, was built for the start of Operation "Barbarossa" - the invasion of the Soviet Union - in 1941. After Wölk's arrival in Gross-Partsch, she and 14 other young women were selected by the local mayor and brought to the barracks in nearby Krausendorf (now Kruszewiec, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland), where cooks prepared food for the Wolf's Lair in a two-story building. Wölk was picked up by a bus daily from her mother-in-law's residence. The tasting took place daily from 11 to 12 o'clock.