Talk about ‘Death by Chocolate.’ Drawings reveal Nazi booby traps made from
everyday items, including a chocolate bomb, meant for the British Prime
Minister.
BY: Christopher Klein
UPDATED: JANUARY 28, 2021 | ORIGINAL: OCTOBER 5, 2015
While Nazi Germany rained conventional bombs upon Great Britain in
World War II, Adolf Hitler’s forces were also busy at work devising Zendishly
clever booby traps to strike the enemy on its own soil. As the war
progressed, British intelligence agency MI5 learned of a secret Nazi
sabotage campaign to hide explosives in everyday items such as cans of
plums, canisters of motor oil, shaving brushes, and lumps of coal. The spy
the agency even discovered Nazi plans to develop bangers and mash that
delivered a true bang.
And in the spring of 1943, MI5 operative Victor Rothschild learned of an
even more ingenious bomb being conjured up by the Nazis: an exploding
chocolate bar.
