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19 July 2012 11:59 AM | By Tom Phillips & msnNOW staff
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Nazis planned to kill Churchill with an exploding chocolate bar

Nazis planned to kill Churchill with an exploding chocolate bar (© Reg Speller/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Death by chocolate may sound tasty, but it was almost the way Sir Winston Churchill went to meet his maker. An historic letter just discovered shows that the Nazis were planning to kill the greatest Briton of all time by placing exploding bars of chocolate in a dining room that the prime minister used along with his War Cabinet.

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