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Her Hidden Life

Her Hidden Life

Author(s): V S Alexander

Location(s): Germany

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): Last years WW2

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Published as The Taster in the USA….

It’s 1943 and Hitler’s Germany is a terrifying place to be.
But Magda Ritter’s duty is the most dangerous of all…

Assigned to The Berghof, Hitler’s mountain retreat, she must serve the Reich by becoming the Führer’s ‘Taster’ – a woman who checks his food for poison. Magda can see no way out of this hellish existence until she meets Karl, an SS officer who has formed an underground resistance group within Hitler’s inner circle.

As their forbidden love grows, Magda and Karl see an opportunity to stop the atrocities of the madman leading their country. But in doing so, they risk their lives, their families and, above all, a love unlike either of them have ever known…

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In the Author’s Note, V S Alexander describes how he was inspired to write this novel after reading an article in the Associated Press (26/4/13) about Margot Woelk, a taster for Adolf Hitler. The...

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