Following her 95th birthday Margot Woelk revealed to the world she had been keeping a secret of her wartime role as Adolf Hitler's food taster.

According to the Associated Press, "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."

According to Woelk, Hitler was a vegetarian, "He was a vegetarian. He never ate any meat during the entire time I was there," Woelk said of the Nazi leader.

Margot Woelk commented on the food she got to enjoy as a food taster however she said the girls lived in constant fear that the delicious plate of food before them would be their last meal.

"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."

Although during the time of War World II Germany suffered from food shortages Hitler did not face famine. The food taster said that as one of Hitler's food tasters the meals were the best, "The food was delicious, only the best vegetables, asparagus, bell peppers, everything you can imagine. And always with a side of rice or pasta."

The former taste tester has kept this secret to herself out of fear of shame and prosecution for associating with Hitler. When Woelk fled from Berlin to escape air attacks she was soon drafted into civilian service and assigned to two and a half years as a kitchen bookkeeper and food taster.

Woelk never saw the Nazi leader in person stating that he was always secretive even in the safety of his lair. Woelk recalls the day of July 20, 1944 in which a bomb detonated in Hitler's lair in a failed attempt to kill him.

"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 scare Margot Woelk was told to leave her relatives and move into an abandoned school closer to the compound however at the time the young woman got on a train to Berlin and went into hiding.

She later found out that the 14 girls who remained were all shot by Russians when the Soviet troops invaded the headquarters. When Woelk returned to Berlin she was taken by Russians and raped.

She recalled, "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."

Follow Hitler's suicide and Berlin's surrender which ended the war Margot Woelk tried to rebuild her life. Today she lives in an apartment which she has not left for eight years and receives occasional visits from her niece and nurses.

Nearing the end of her life the former food taster decided to share her story.

"For decades, I tried to shake off those memories," she said. "But they always came back to haunt me at night."