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 ...
Spielberg will make a movie about them showing they're just as bad as the Nazis.
Can you please change the "thys" in the headline to "they"? Thanks and Merry Christmas.
Doesn't matter how you see yourself. It only matters how God sees one.
Why change it? Adds to the "enlightenment".
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.
Amen
Adds to my embarassment too :)
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.
"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...
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.
Murder?? Most Nazis who killed the millions lived nice and comfortable lives; some continue to do so. No.....killing vermin is not murder.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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