Better to Pass on the Nazi Chocolate

LONDON
(Reuters) – Luckily, the exploding Smedley’s English Red Plums in Heavy
Syrup were intercepted in Turkey before anyone got killed.

But what of the hand grenade disguised as a chocolate bar? Or the incendiary
Vichy pastille sweets?

A secret file from the archives of Britain’s spy services released this
week shows ingenious methods, conjured up by Germans during World War Two,
for disguising bombs.

Among the files declassified by the National Archive was a treasure trove
of nifty exploding gadgets, labeled "Camouflages for sabotage equipment
used by the German sabotage services."

The drawing of the design for the chocolate bar grenade says it is made
from steel coated with real chocolate, and activated by breaking off a
bit at one end. It doesn’t say whether the grenade was ever actually manufactured
or used.

The file also includes photos of the incendiary pastille sweets, and bombs
hidden in anything from oil cans and food tins to a lump of coal.

from Reuters