Holocaust Survivors Admit to Forming a Death Squad to Kill Nazis
by Jim Kouri, CPP
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.
Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police. He’s former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed “Crack City” by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He’s also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. He writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He’s a staff writer for New Media Alliance (thenma.org), and he’s a columnist for TheConservativeVoice.Com, AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he’s syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. He’s appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. His book Assume The Position is available at Amazon.Com, Booksamillion.com, and can be ordered at local bookstores. If you wish to sign up for his intelligence reports, write to JimKouriReports@aol.com. Kouri’s own website is located at http://jimkouri.us
Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he's a staff writer for the New Media Alliance (thenma.org). In addition, he's the former editor for the House Conservatives Fund's weblog. Kouri also serves as political advisor for Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Michael Moriarty. He's former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He's a news writer for TheConservativeVoice.Com and PHXnews.com. He's also a columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he's syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. He's appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. To subscribe to Kouri's newsletter write to COPmagazine@aol.com and write "Subscription" on the subject line. | More from Jim Kouri, CPP
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