The Fake Coal That Destroyed 1,000 German Trains | WWII’s Most Ingenious Sabotage Weapon

Описание: During the darkest days of World War II, German supply trains began to explode mysteriously across occupied Europe. Boilers erupted, locomotives were torn apart, and vital wartime supplies went up in flames. Yet, every investigation reached the same baffling conclusion: no evidence of sabotage. Just coal.

This is the untold story of explosive coal – one of the most cunning and devastating clandestine weapons ever created. Developed in secret by Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE), each lump was a masterpiece of deception: hand-painted, perfectly weighted, and filled with heat-triggered plastic explosive. Resistance fighters slipped them into coal yards and tenders, where they vanished among the real fuel. Once shoveled into a locomotive’s firebox, they detonated, destroying engines from within and leaving investigators with nothing but ash and confusion.

By 1945, this invisible weapon had devastated over 1,000 locomotives, choked Nazi supply lines, and bred deep-seated paranoia among railway crews and commanders. Even when German engineers uncovered the secret, they had no defense — because in a war powered by coal, you can’t suspect every single lump.

Through archival footage, expert interviews, and dramatic reconstructions, this documentary reveals how a simple, silent idea brought chaos to Hitler's railways, turned necessity into vulnerability, and proved that in wartime, the most powerful weapon isn’t always a bomb — sometimes, it’s just a piece of coal.

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