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London, Apr 4 (ANI): Newly declassified files have revealed that the Nazis plotted to poison sausages, chocolate and Nescafe coffee of the British and American soldiers as part of a resistance plan if they were to lose the Second World War.

The Werewolf organisation, a network of Nazi saboteurs who would fight to create a ‘Fourth Reich’ in the event Hitler’s empire crumbled, were to leave tins of instant coffee powder and other foods laced with toxins where they could be found by the troops, reports the Daily Mail.

The revelations were made in a formerly top-secret MI5 dossier on the potential use of poisons by Nazi guerrillas after the war.

Other secret weapons to be used ranged from cigarette lighters that gave off lethal fumes when ignited to poison pills disguised as aspirins.

Lord Rothschild, the then head of MI5’s counter-espionage section, had a bar of chocolate and a tin of Nescafé seized from German forces sent away for tests for poisons.

Bruce White, from the National Institute for Medical Research, wrote back to say his scientists planned to ‘try your chocolate on a monkey’, but the files do not reveal the results.

But recently Prof Christopher Andrew, MI5’s official historian, who has supervised the releaseof 180 files from the archives,said: “Nowadays it’s easy to regard such schemes as impossibly far-fetched.

“But at the time it was reasonable to believe that after the Allied victory there would remain a dangerous post-war Nazi underground which would continue a secret war.” (ANI)