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10 dirty tricks of World War II

“ The rats
would be

skinned,

filled with
explosives

and sewn
back up
again”

Devised by: Britain

Did it work? They were never used.
A container full of dead rats was
intercepted by the Germans, which
alerted them to the wheeze. But they
subsequently spent many man-hours
trying to find more evidence of them,
believing them to be more prolific on
mainland Europe than they actually
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Red Army soldiers examining an exploded
Disclosing this informa Nazi train, 1943. This was the kind of result
the British were hoping for with their rats

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Space needed to be created A standard No 6 primer
inside the rat so it could be was set within the plastic
filled with plastic explosive so explosive. A primer is a small 6DIHW\ IXVH
scientists skinned them and primary explosive device
sewed them back up. Leading out from the primer
used to detonate a larger, less was a short length of safety
sensitive secondary explosive. fuse with a detonator on one
end and a copper tube igniter
on the other.

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