![]() ![]() Perched high in the Bavarian Alps, the Berghof seems worlds away from the realities of battle. ![]() Only after weeks of training does she learn her assignment: she will be one of several young women tasting the Führer’s food, offering herself in sacrifice to keep him from being poisoned. After an interview with the civil service, Magda is assigned to the Berghof, Hitler’s mountain retreat. Young German women are expected to do their duty-working for the Reich or marrying to produce strong, healthy children. In early 1943, Magda Ritter’s parents send her to relatives in Bavaria, hoping to keep her safe from the Allied bombs strafing Berlin. ![]() Amid the turbulence of World War II, a young German woman finds a precarious haven closer to the source of danger than she ever imagined-one that will propel her through the extremes of privilege and terror under Hitler’s dictatorship. ![]()
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