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Holocaust victim 'avengers' reunite on television broadcast (thys hunted down the SS after WW2)
Haaretz ^ | Dec. 24, 2005 | Associated Press

Posted on 12/24/2005 3:08:58 PM PST by indcons

A group of elderly Holocaust survivors came forward Friday with accounts of a death squad they formed after World War II to take revenge on their Nazi persecutors, recounting a brazen operation in which they poisoned hundreds of SS officers.

In a broadcast on television's Channel Two, the survivors - some of whom fought in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising - recalled hunting down SS officers in the dead of night. Disguised as British or American officers, they would drag the SS men out of their homes and execute them, they said.

In their largest operation, the group, code-named "The Avengers," received a large amount of arsenic from Paris and laced loaves of bread fed to hundreds of SS officers imprisoned in an American camp after the war. They said they were also planning a broad operation in Dachau and Nuremberg, but the Jewish leadership in what would soon become Israel forced them to abandon the plan.

"I didn't see myself as a murderer, not then and not today," group member Simcha Rotem told Channel Two.

(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: holocaust; israel; jews; ss; wwii
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Never heard of this before.....good job by these heroes.
1 posted on 12/24/2005 3:08:59 PM PST by indcons
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To: indcons

Spielberg will make a movie about them showing they're just as bad as the Nazis.


2 posted on 12/24/2005 3:10:25 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (Warning: Adult language, but great Christmas message: http://foamy.libertech.net/noxmas.swf)
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To: Admin Moderator

Can you please change the "thys" in the headline to "they"? Thanks and Merry Christmas.


3 posted on 12/24/2005 3:11:13 PM PST by indcons (Merry Christmas FReepers)
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To: indcons
"I didn't see myself as a murderer, not then and not today," group member Simcha Rotem told Channel Two.

Doesn't matter how you see yourself. It only matters how God sees one.

4 posted on 12/24/2005 3:12:18 PM PST by taxesareforever (Government is running amuck)
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To: indcons

Why change it? Adds to the "enlightenment".


5 posted on 12/24/2005 3:12:25 PM PST by brivette
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To: Darkwolf377

Spielberg will come up with a movie where the Nazis are shown as "only reacting to Jewish oppression"

If Spielberg can rewrite recent history like the Munich Olympics, there is no telling what that POS is capable of.


6 posted on 12/24/2005 3:13:24 PM PST by indcons (Merry Christmas FReepers)
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To: taxesareforever

Amen


7 posted on 12/24/2005 3:14:12 PM PST by indcons (Merry Christmas FReepers)
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To: brivette

Adds to my embarassment too :)


8 posted on 12/24/2005 3:14:34 PM PST by indcons (Merry Christmas FReepers)
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It only matters how God sees one.

What about the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? Don't their opinions matter?

Seriously, these 'avengers' did a public service. Applause is in order...not a sermon from the cyberspace mount.

9 posted on 12/24/2005 3:15:05 PM PST by peyton randolph (<a href="http://clinton.senate.gov/">shrew</a>)
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To: indcons
I have heard of this before. Several years ago on Nightline. However, at the time, they did not claim that all the P O W's they poisoned were ss officers ... just POW's. some of whom, I think, were in U.S. custody. Just dumping poison in the food at a POW camp is not heroic. It's murder and they should be prosecuted just as Nazi war criminals were.
10 posted on 12/24/2005 3:20:09 PM PST by isrul
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"It's murder and they should be prosecuted just as Nazi war criminals were."

I wonder what the statute of limitations is on murder in Germany...


11 posted on 12/24/2005 3:28:14 PM PST by gondramB (Rightful liberty is unobstructed action within limits of the equal rights of others.)
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I don't think God will judge them harshly either (not that I am speaking for Him). That said, these people are true heroes and should be thanked for what they did.


12 posted on 12/24/2005 3:30:54 PM PST by indcons (Merry Christmas FReepers)
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To: isrul

Murder?? Most Nazis who killed the millions lived nice and comfortable lives; some continue to do so. No.....killing vermin is not murder.


13 posted on 12/24/2005 3:32:26 PM PST by indcons (Merry Christmas FReepers)
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"But another plan, carried out in part by Joseph Harmatz, largely succeeded. Harmatz found work at a bakery that supplied bread to American-run prisoner camps. He said he received arsenic in rubber bottles from Paris, which he then used to poison 3,000 loaves of bread. About 2,280 SS men ate the bread, he said, but couldn't say how many - or if any - died."


Hey, I am not going to shed any tears over killing the killers but do you think maybe some innocent people may have eaten some of that bread? Perhaps an American guard or local postwar starving peasants? Not a good or noble plan but I certainly understand the motivation.


14 posted on 12/24/2005 3:42:04 PM PST by Outrance
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What about the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? Don't their opinions matter? Seriously, these 'avengers' did a public service. Applause is in order...not a sermon from the cyberspace mount.

Agreed.
15 posted on 12/24/2005 3:43:28 PM PST by Minus_The_Bear
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To: indcons

Heroes? More like murderers, who killed indiscriminantly or attempted to do so without allowing their victims any sort of due process. You can't blanket 2,800 German POWs as death camp guards who oversaw the murder of innocent people, but that simply doesn't resemble the facts.


16 posted on 12/24/2005 5:03:21 PM PST by LEPEN
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Woudn't want to be standing in their feet on judgment day .... even if I can't really shed any tears for the --er -- victims.


17 posted on 12/24/2005 5:18:56 PM PST by Appalled but Not Surprised
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To: indcons
I have heard this before.

I have always admired the killers of killers.

It is a dirty job, but the manifestation of organizations like the Schutzstaffel makes it a moral imperative that some amongst the good sacrifice their moral convictions and counter evil with an equal and opposite force.

It is hard to have sympathy for people who wore the order of the death head as insignia and enforced the extermination of millions of non combatant civilians. The SS was recruited from sociopaths, they should have been hunted down and exterminated to the last man.

Today America lacks the political ability to identify and carry out such a necessity.

18 posted on 12/24/2005 5:26:08 PM PST by mmercier (many a thing past hope they had fulfilled)
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"Just dumping poison in the food at a POW camp (full of Nazis) is not heroic. It's murder and they should be prosecuted just as Nazi war criminals were.

If you were a surviver of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, or Treblinka; where SIX MILLION of your people, including your ENTIRE family, were gassed to death and then incinerated you might be singin' a different tune...buddy.
19 posted on 12/24/2005 5:31:35 PM PST by Lancer_N3502A
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If a person would advocate and support the execution of potentially innocent people who happened to belong to the same nation and even organizations whose members were responsible for the killing of this family, that person would also be in the wrong and just as guilty.


20 posted on 12/24/2005 6:10:09 PM PST by LEPEN
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