Eating was a game of Russian roulette for Margo Wölk - because every mouthful of food could have killed her.

Although grateful for the bland vegetarian meals she was given, the 25-year-old and her colleagues were not being fed out of generosity.

Ms Wölk was one of 15 women employed at Adolf Hitler's Prussian headquarters during the Second World War to taste the Nazi leader's food to ensure it had not been poisoned.

In an interview with Berlin's RBB television channel, the only surviving meal-tester who is now a 96-year-old widow, recalled how the women would burst into tears after each meal because they were grateful to still be alive.

Because of 'constant rumors the British were out to poison Hitler', he never ate meat, and his meals would consist of rice, noodles, peppers, peas and cauliflower.

Ms Wölk said of the experience: 'Some of the girls started to shed tears as they began eating because they were so afraid. We had to eat it all up. 

Then we had to wait an hour, and every time we were frightened that we were going to be ill. We used to cry like dogs because we were so glad to have survived.' 

Ms Wölk became a food taster by accident after taking refuge at her mother's Partsch home, which happened to be next door to Hitler's Wolf's Lair. 

She had been bombed out of her Berlin apartment in 1941 - after her husband Karl had been drafted into the army - and was forced by the mayor of the town to take-up the deadly job.

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