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raccoon

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Sat Apr 27, 2013, 07:39 AM Apr 2013

Interesting bit of history about Hitler....

Hitler's food taster tells of poisoning fears

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER | Associated Press – 17 hrs ago

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.

Woelk, then in her mid-twenties, spent two and a half 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...

http://news.yahoo.com/hitlers-food-taster-tells-poisoning-fears-150032362.html

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Interesting bit of history about Hitler.... (Original Post) raccoon Apr 2013 OP
interesting dembotoz Apr 2013 #1
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