The Jewish AvengersDuring World War II a large group of former Jewish partisans and Holocaust surviv

The Jewish AvengersDuring World War II a large group of former Jewish partisans and Holocaust survivors formed a post war underground organization called the “Nokmim”, also known as the “Jewish Avengers”.  The goal of the Jewish Avengers was simple, to avenge the deaths of the Holocaust, mostly by hunting down former Nazi war criminals.  They worked in small cells of 4 or 5 people, with cells located all across Germany and Europe.  It was not uncommon for cells to even travel to South America to hunt down Ex Nazi’s who had made their home in Argentina or Brazil.  Typically the Nokmim would perform assassination missions, killing a target on the spot. In one incident a Nokmim agent injected a former Gestapo leader with kerosene while he was being hospitalized for an illness. They would also abduct targets, sometimes while disguised a Allied soldiers making an arrest, then take the prisoner into a secluded area, hold a mock trial in which summary judgment was passed, then execute him.  At first Nokmim members would simply shoot a condemned Nazi, but later they adopted strangling as their favored execution method. In the post war 1940’s and 50’s, they were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of ex Nazis.Most Nokmim groups only targeted those who had direct involvement in war crimes or crimes against humanity.  However, one group, called the Nakam, was much more radical in their beliefs.  Founded by the Lithuanian Jew and partisan fighter Abba Kovner, the name “Nakam” was based on the Hebrew phrase “Dam Yahudi Nakam” (Jewish Blood Will Be Avenged).  This reflected Kovner’s intentions accurately as he believed that justice would only be served if eye-for-an-eye vengeance was exacted upon the German people.  Kovner believed that the Germans needed to pay with the deaths of 6 million people in order to make up for the 6 million Jews who were killed during the Holocaust.  In 1946 Kovner formulated a plan to bring about his revenge.  Obtaining poison from the Haganah in Palestine, Kovner and his agents planned to infiltrate water plants in Germany and poison the water supplies of Munich, Berlin, Weimar, Nuremberg, and Hamburg.  Supposedly the mission was given the go ahead by future Israeli President Chaim Weizmann, although this is disputed today.  However many other high ranking Jewish leaders in the Haganah knew of the plan and thought it was too extreme.  They tipped off Allied authorities, and Kovner and his gang were arrested in France with forged papers.Kovner’s plan of poisoning 6 million Germans had failed, however he decided to try again, this time poisoning 3,000 loaves of bread destined to be fed to 12,000 German POW’s at the Langwasser Internment Camp in Nuremburg.  Around 1,900 POWs were sickened with arsenic poisoning.  According to Nakam members, around 300-400 died, although Allied reports make no mention of deaths. In 1947 Abba Kovner left the Nakam in 1947 in order to fight in the Israeli War of Independence. He later became a poet, and testified in the famous trial of Adolf Eichmann.  He died in 1987.  The Nokmim continued hunting war criminals across Europe and South America until it gradually its members parted ways in the 1950’s. -- source link
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