Article PRQH The Nazis made this exploding chocolate bar to kill Winston Churchill

The Nazis made this exploding chocolate bar to kill Winston Churchill

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Mark Frauenfelder
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In World War II, the Nazis made a bunch of different booby trapped items, including thermos flasks, mess tins, motor oil cans, watches, and even a chocolate bar designed to kill Winston Churchill when he bit into it. Fortunately, England's Prime Minister did not sink his teeth into the candy-coated bomb, and the MI5 hired an artist to illustrate it and the other German booby traps it had discovered. These drawings were lost in a drawer for 70 years, but were recently found and have been published by the BBC. (more")

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