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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.

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