Constanze Manziarly

Constanze Manziarly (April 14, 1920 – disappeared ca. May 2, 1945) served as a cook/dietitian to Adolf Hitler.

Manziarly was born in Innsbruck, Austria. She began working for Hitler from his 1943 stays at the Berghof until his final days in the Führerbunker in Berlin in 1945.

Together with Gerda Christian and Traudl Junge, Manziarly was personally requested to leave the bunker by Hitler himself on April 22, on claims that he feared for their safety,

Manziarly left the Führerbunker on May 1st. Her group was led by SS-Brigadeführer Wilhelm Mohnke, this group awkwardly made its way north to a German army hold-out on the Prinzenallee, and included Dr. Ernst-Günther Schenck and the female secretaries, Gerda Christian, Else Krüger, and Traudl Junge.

Despite claims that she took a cyanide capsule to kill herself on May 2, the day after the majority of Führerbunker staff abandoned the stronghold to avoid impending Soviet capture, Traudl Junge recounts Manziarly leaving with her group two days earlier, "dressed too much like a soldier". In 1989, Junge recalled that she the last time Manziarly was seen was when the group of four women tasked with delivering a report to Karl Donitz split up, and Manziarly tried to blend in with a group of local women. However, in her 2002 autobiography Until the Final Hour, she alluded to seeing Manziarly, "the ideal image of Russian femininity, well built and plump-cheeked", being taken into a U-Bahn subway tunnel by two Soviet soldiers, reassuring the group that "They are just going to see my papers."