"Hitler’s food taster feared each meal would be the last" by Kirsten Grieshaber | Associated Press, April 27, 2013
BERLIN — They were feasts of sublime asparagus — laced with fear. And for more than half a century, Margot Woelk kept her secret hidden from the world, even from her husband. Then, a few months after her 95th birthday, she revealed the truth about her wartime role: Adolf Hitler’s food taster.
I'm kinda doubting it, but I'll take it on face value that the woman is who the media says. I see it as just another way for the Zionist media machine to keep the guy in our faces.
Woelk, then in her mid-20s, spent 2½ years as one of 15 young women who sampled Hitler’s food to make sure it wasn’t poisoned before it was served to the Nazi leader in his ‘‘Wolf’s Lair,’’ the heavily guarded command center in what is now Poland, where he spent much of his time in the final years of World War II.
Wondering who might want to do something like that?
‘‘He was a vegetarian. He never ate any meat during the entire time I was there,’’ Woelk said. ‘‘And Hitler was so paranoid that the British would poison him — that’s why he had 15 girls taste the food before he ate it himself.’’
Actually, he wasn't. People really were trying to kill him.
With many Germans contending with food shortages and a bland diet as the war dragged on, sampling Hitler’s food had its advantages....
Yeah, he starved his people and ate well. Acting like an America leader he. Never mind the relentless, around-the-clock, allied bombing that destroyed the infrastructure.
Adolf Hitler, shown with mistress Eva Braun (AP/File)
Woelk’s story is a tale of the horror, pain, and dislocation endured by people of all sides who survived World War II.
Now in the sunset of her life, has she been willing to relate her experiences, which she had buried because of shame and the fear of prosecution for having worked with the Nazis, although she insists she was never a party member. She told her story as she flipped through a photo album with pictures of her as a young woman.
Woelk first revealed her secret to a local Berlin reporter a few months ago. Since then interest in her life story has been overwhelming. Schoolteachers wrote and asked her for photos and autographs to bring history alive for their students. Several researchers from a museum visited to ask for details about her life as Hitler’s taster.
Woelk says the story of her association with Hitler began after she fled Berlin to escape Allied air attacks. With her husband away serving in the German Army, she moved in with relatives about 435 miles to the east in Rastenburg, then part of Germany; now it is Ketrzyn, in what became Poland after the war.
There she was drafted into civilian service and assigned for the next 2½ years as a food taster and kitchen bookkeeper at the Wolf’s Lair complex, located a few miles outside the town. Hitler was so secretive, even in the relative safety of his headquarters, that she never saw him in person — only his German shepherd Blondie and his SS guards, who chatted with the women.
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Hitler’s security fears were not unfounded. On July 20, 1944, a trusted colonel detonated a bomb in the Wolf’s Lair in an attempt to kill Hitler. He survived, but nearly 5,000 people were executed following the assassination attempt, including the bomber.
So he wasn't paranoid, and was almost the victim of an inside job.
‘‘We were sitting on wooden benches when we heard and felt an incredible big bang,’’ she said of the 1944 bombing. ‘‘We fell off the benches, and I heard someone shouting ‘Hitler is dead!’ But he wasn’t.”
Following the blast, tension rose at the headquarters. Woelk said the Nazis ordered her to leave her relatives’ home and move into an abandoned school closer to the compound.
With the Soviet Army on the offensive and the war going badly for Germany, one of her SS friends advised her to leave the Wolf’s Lair. She said she returned by train to Berlin and went into hiding.
Woelk said the other women on the food tasting team decided to remain in Rastenburg since their families were there and it was their home.
‘‘Later, I found out that the Russians shot all of the 14 other girls,’’ she said. It was after Soviet troops overran the headquarters in January 1945.
I'm surprised the Zionist-controlled paper mentions this, although Russia seems to be the new demon after Boston.
When she returned to Berlin, she found a city facing complete destruction. Round-the-clock bombing by US and British planes was grinding the city center to rubble.
For many Berlin civilians — their homes destroyed, family members missing or dead and food almost gone — the horror did not end with capitulation.
‘‘The Russians then came to Berlin and got me, too,’’ Woelk said. ‘‘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.’’
I've lost my appetite.
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It's not like I think the guy was all warm and fuzzy; however, it would certainly be an interesting chat with the guy. If you could go back in time and have lunch with ten people who are now dead I think the hated man makes the list. He makes mine, anyway.
Related: Sunday Globe Special: Killing Hitler Again
The guy makes more appearances in the paper after nearly 70 years in the grave than he did when he was alive!
Also see: Sunday Globe Not So Special: Forgotten Birthday
They forgot that?
Other things they have "forgotten":
What the Historians Neglect to Mention
Lies About Hitler
Straight from the horse's mouth, folks.
So where you wanna go eat?
"Earnings rise as revenue falls at Burger King" by Tom Murphy and Candice Choi | Associated Press, April 27, 2013
Burger King’s first-quarter earnings more than doubled, even though revenue fell, as the fast-food chain trimmed several restaurant-related expenses.
The Miami-based company had warned earlier this month that sales at established restaurants were expected to fall during the quarter, and they wound up declining 1.4 percent. Burger King said competition and a strong first quarter last year hurt US and Canadian sales comparisons to this year’s quarter. But it said sales from those countries rallied in March due in part to promotions like the $1.29 Whopper Jr.
Overall, Burger King Worldwide Inc. said Friday its net income rose to $35.8 million in the quarter that ended March 31. That’s up from $14.3 million in the previous year’s quarter when it was still private....
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Maybe you want to skip it and go right to dessert:
"Hostess set to reopen, expand bakery in Kansas" Associated Press, April 27, 2013
EMPORIA, Kan. — Hostess Brands LLC says it will reopen its eastern Kansas bakery this summer, with the hiring of an initial 250 people already underway.
The announcement was made Thursday by the investment partnership that bought Hostess Brands’ snack cake product lines.
More than 500 people lost their jobs when Hostess, then in bankruptcy proceedings, closed the plant in Emporia last November following a strike by union bakers....
Well, they were taken from them, but who wants to quibble?
Hostess Brands officials said they’ll expand the bakery. They’re aiming for total employment of about 300 people within the next few years.
Which means 200 jobs are permanently gone.
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Tastes like rubber cardboard.
Related: Boston Globe Junk Food
Also see: Twinkies buyer says cakes could return by summer
Hostess sale of Wonder bread nears completion
