The chocolate bar was designed to detonate seven seconds after the chocolate was broken and the Nazis wanted to assassinate Winston Churchill using such a bar. They intended to place it in the middle of items going into the War Cabinet's dining room.
This has been reported in foxnewsw.com dated 6 October 2015.
This has come light from a letter of 1943 discovered in 2009. The letter had been written by Lord Rothschild to artist Laurence Fish, who also made the drawings of various Nazi booby-traps.
Lord Rothschild was a larger-than-life character. He was a scientist and self-appointed expert on many things and was also one third of MI5's counter-espionage unit, along with his secretary (and future wife) and police inspector Donald Fish.
Rothschild apparently was in need of someone to draw sketches of the devices he was finding. His intention was to create a sort of manual for any Brits who might encounter them. It was then that Fish recommended his son, Laurence who was a self-taught draughtsman.
That drawings had been presumed to have been lost but they turned up in the home of Rothschild's daughter only recently.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)
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