Hitler and the Exploding Candybars...

[Shangas]

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blog...chocolate-055149196--abc-news-topstories.html

*nibbles cautiously on his Cadbury's*

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Now if it had been an exploding box of cigars the course of history might have been radically changed.

 

[AmateisGal]

I read this the other day - fascinating stuff. You have to admit, it's pretty creative!

 

[Shangas]

Perhaps, but I don't see a one-pound candybar NOT looking incredibly suspicious. Don't forget that RATIONING was in effect at the time. Where would they get the sugar and cocoa?

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

From TM 31-200-1: Unconventional Warfare Devices and Techniques: References,
(Washington DC: Headquarters, Department of the Army, April 1966)

 

[Fletch]

A 7 second delay? Wouldn't anyone with functioning war nerves have seen the trigger, dropped the device and run like hell in about 5? Awfully sporting, these Jerries...

 

[Shangas]

Maybe if the candybar came with nitro-filled centers, it could serve as a grenade of sorts...

Break off a piece for yourself, and then share the rest with the Jerries...

 

[Espee]

What if it had a coupon for a pizza joint on the back of the wrapper? Like the big "fundraising" bars...

 

[rocketeer]

Perhaps, but I don't see a one-pound candybar NOT looking incredibly suspicious. Don't forget that RATIONING was in effect at the time. Where would they get the sugar and cocoa?

Yes with all that rationing going on how come Chruchill was so fat.

 

[matrioshka]

I think it was meant less as a booby trap and more as a means to smuggle explosives.

The OSS did something similar with pancake batter, of all things. You could cook it and eat it, or attach a blasting cap to it and blow stuff up...

 

[Shangas]

I think it was meant less as a booby trap and more as a means to smuggle explosives.

The OSS did something similar with pancake batter, of all things. You could cook it and eat it, or attach a blasting cap to it and blow stuff up...

I remember that. You gotta give them credit. That was actually pretty ingeneius.

 

[Story]

"I Was Hitler's Food Taster" sounds like a forgotten Ed Wood movie.

BERLIN -- They were feasts of sublime asparagus – laced with fear. And for more than half a century, Margot Woelk kept her secret hidden from the world, even from her husband. Then, a few months after her 95th birthday, she revealed the truth about her wartime role: Adolf Hitler's food taster.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...id=maing-grid7|aim|dl11|sec1_lnk3&pLid=304832

 

[Shangas]

I saw that on the news last night. Fascinating story. Hitler really was a careful eater.

Apparently there were three or four of these food-tasters. Not sure if the others are still alive, though.