Nazi chocolate bar bomb

Nazi chocolate bar bomb

During the Second World War, German saboteurs operating against Britain designed a range of unconventional bombs disguised as, amongst others: tins of plums, throat lozenges, shaving brushes, batteries, wood, coal and stuffed dogs. Arguably the most unconventional bomb was the Nazi chocolate bar bomb that was intended to be smuggled into the homes of the Royals with the purpose of assassination.Fact|date=February 2007 None of the chocolate bars reached Britain, but British Authorities did capture some in places as far away as Turkey," [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4204980.stm Nazis' exploding chocolate plans] " - BBC News, Sunday 04 September 2005] according to the MI5 file "Camouflages for sabotage equipment used by the German sabotage services." A secondary use for the proposed disguised chocolate bar was as an emergency hand grenade.

Operation

The bomb was made of steel with a thin covering of real chocolate. When the piece of chocolate at the end was broken off, the canvas detonator was pulled, and, after a delay of seven seconds, the bomb would explode. [Gizmodo [http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/chocolate-weapons/german-chocolate-bar-grenade-shows-cocoa-is-bad-for-your-health-after-all-304688.php blog entry on Nazi chocolate bar bomb] ]

Planned delivery

The Germans had previously air-dropped chocolate bars over Poland in 1939 to celebrate their victory, but Polish Authorities had quickly confiscated them and analyzed them in case of just such a threat. To kill a Royal, the bar would have had to be smuggled into the residence by the saboteurs themselves or smuggled into a box that would have been taken into the palace from an ordinary source. None of the saboteurs got anywhere near London to carry out the Nazi plan. These ingenious objects got no further than four explosive cans of peas, which were found on German agents who landed in Ireland by small boat and claimed that they hoped to get them into Buckingham Palace. Why a member of the royal family would be opening a tin of peas themselves, however, doesn't seem to have been taken into account. [" [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06EFDB1338F936A25752C1A9659C8B63&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fSubjects%2fW%2fWorld%20War%20II%20%281939%2d45%29 World Briefing / Europe: Britain: Peas Plot] " - The New York Times, Saturday 15 November 2003]

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