‘Exploding rat’ created by Allied spies in World War II
Several schemes were dreamed up when the Allied forces were up against the Nazis. One was the exploding rats.
British scientists stuffed dozens of the dead rodents with explosives, detonators and fuses. The idea was for French Resistance fighters and Special Operations Executive agents to infiltrate armament factories and leave the rat corpses around the boiler rooms.
It was hoped the Germans would throw the vermin straight into the furnace, triggering an explosion and wreaking havoc in Nazi-occupied France.
But the first batch of 100 rat bombs was intercepted by the Germans in 1942 and the plan was never put into practice
However it caused a great deal of confusion among the Germans who assumed there were thousands of others and went on an epic hunt for them.
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