A new off-Broadway show, “H*tler's Tasters,” is inspired by the 15 young German women who were employed by the Nazis as Adolph Hitler's taste testers.
Wölk’s life improved when she learned that her husband had not died after all, and the couple reunited in 1946. One day in 1944, as the Soviet Army approached Gross-Partsch, Wölk fled to Berlin via train — a risky move that would ultimately save her life. Then we had to wait an hour, and every time we were frightened that we were going to be ill. “The best vegetables, asparagus, bell pepper, everything you can imagine and always with a side of rice or pasta,” she said in an AP interview. “It was very tasty, but the fear which came with the food.” She had lost contact with him and believed him to be dead.