A letter from Lord Victor Rothschild reveals a Nazi plot to assassinate Winston Churchill with an explosive device disguised as chocolate. The bomb was discovered before it could be activated. Churchill had many vices, including tobacco, alcohol, and a high-calorie diet.
Winston Churchill reportedly had many vices, including tobacco, alcohol and a high-calorie diet, but it was chocolate that once posed the greatest threat to the prime minister’s life, according to a letter written in 1943 by one of the most famous British counterintelligence chiefs, Lord Victor Rothschild. In the letter, Rothschild writes that British spies had learned of a wartime Nazi plot to assassinate Churchill in the dining room of the War Cabinet, where the prime minister often sat. German agents planned to coat an explosive device with a thin layer of chocolate and wrap it in fancy packaging. After planting it in the room, all it would take to activate the device was someone breaking off a piece of the candy. The bomb was to explode within seconds, killing anyone in the vicinity. Luckily for Churchill – and everyone else present at the time – the candy conspiracy was discovered before the candy bar was unwrapped. Rothschild’s letter was made public after it appeared in 2009 in correspondence left by Laurence Fish, an illustrator Rothschild had asked to draw a sketch of the explosive device.
A close-up of Churchill:
Churchill rose to prominence in Britain after escaping from a prisoner of war camp in South Africa in 1899 and reaching the safety of 300 miles (483 km).
Churchill was very pro-alcohol, calling prohibition in the United States “an affront” to all people, and reportedly brought 60 bottles of spirits with him to fight in the Boer War.
Though famed for his oratory, Churchill struggled with a speech impediment throughout his life, often doing verbal exercises to try and alleviate it.
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