Starr
01-05-2006, 01:26 AM
Real or greatly exaggerated in an attempt to give them a sort of "vigilante" hero status?:rolleyes:
As if taking a page out of Steven Spielberg's screenplay for his new motion picture "Munich," several Holocaust survivors shocked many when they admitted they formed a special death squad to hunt down Nazi war criminals after World War II. They conceded it was a group effort less concerned with bringing their persecutors to trial than with personally taking revenge on their tormentors.
The survivors said they hunted the former SS officers who headed the death camps executing and poisoning hundreds of them.
During a TV broadcast in Israel, the death sqaud members, some of whom fought in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, described hunting down SS officers in the dead of night. While wearing British or American military uniforms and officers' insignia, they said they dragged the former SS killers out of their homes and killed them execution-style.
In the biggest covert action undertaken, the group of Jewish men, who called themselves "The Avengers," obtained arsenic and laced loaves of bread with the poison which was fed to hundreds of SS officers who were being housed in detention camps by the American military. They claimed during the broadcast that they were also planning a large-scale action in Nuremberg, but the Jewish leaders — more interested in establishing an Israeli state than in seeking revenge on fugitive Nazis — ordered them to abandon their deadly operations.
"I didn't see myself as a murderer, not then and not today," death squad member Simcha Rotem told the Israeli TV audience. The special television broadcast reported on a reunion of the death squad members that was held outside of the city of Tel Aviv.
Exactly 60 years after the end of World War II, with most of several dozen members of "The Avengers" either dead or in their late 70s and 80s, Rotem told the Associated Press that "they gave into family pressure to recount their experiences to their children, grandchildren and other relatives."
Now and then, stories of such death squads have circulated in Israel. The Israeli government often turns a blind eye to such reports. In 2005, the Israel government denied a Polish request for extradition of a suspected member of "The Avengers."
Even more shocking was the story of how they wanted to poison the water supply of five German cities. However, fear that innocent people might die caused them to drop the plan.(how noble of the Jews. LOL
www.renewamerica.us/columns/kouri/060101
As if taking a page out of Steven Spielberg's screenplay for his new motion picture "Munich," several Holocaust survivors shocked many when they admitted they formed a special death squad to hunt down Nazi war criminals after World War II. They conceded it was a group effort less concerned with bringing their persecutors to trial than with personally taking revenge on their tormentors.
The survivors said they hunted the former SS officers who headed the death camps executing and poisoning hundreds of them.
During a TV broadcast in Israel, the death sqaud members, some of whom fought in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, described hunting down SS officers in the dead of night. While wearing British or American military uniforms and officers' insignia, they said they dragged the former SS killers out of their homes and killed them execution-style.
In the biggest covert action undertaken, the group of Jewish men, who called themselves "The Avengers," obtained arsenic and laced loaves of bread with the poison which was fed to hundreds of SS officers who were being housed in detention camps by the American military. They claimed during the broadcast that they were also planning a large-scale action in Nuremberg, but the Jewish leaders — more interested in establishing an Israeli state than in seeking revenge on fugitive Nazis — ordered them to abandon their deadly operations.
"I didn't see myself as a murderer, not then and not today," death squad member Simcha Rotem told the Israeli TV audience. The special television broadcast reported on a reunion of the death squad members that was held outside of the city of Tel Aviv.
Exactly 60 years after the end of World War II, with most of several dozen members of "The Avengers" either dead or in their late 70s and 80s, Rotem told the Associated Press that "they gave into family pressure to recount their experiences to their children, grandchildren and other relatives."
Now and then, stories of such death squads have circulated in Israel. The Israeli government often turns a blind eye to such reports. In 2005, the Israel government denied a Polish request for extradition of a suspected member of "The Avengers."
Even more shocking was the story of how they wanted to poison the water supply of five German cities. However, fear that innocent people might die caused them to drop the plan.(how noble of the Jews. LOL
www.renewamerica.us/columns/kouri/060101