-- JohnGilbert - 06 Jan 2006

Why good German families had to flee Germany after WW2 for Uruguay and other countries?

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From: John Gilbert(2)
To: Barrie Gilbert
Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 6:52 PM
Subject: [4legs] Bread laced with poison fed to Nazis in camps after war

Bar,
ever wonder why good German families had to flee Germany after WW2 for Uruguay and other countries?
Ever wonder when Hollywood will stop German-bashing? TV's Hogun's Heroes still does re-runs. The two storie below are just the tip of the iceberg.

(( Picard: "I think, when one has been angry for a very long time, one gets used to it. And it becomes comfortable like...like old leather. And finally...feels so humiliated one can't remember feeling any other way." ))

A few of years ago I watched a CBC special called 'The Jewish Brigade'. I doubt that it will be shown again due to media convergence and concentration. It was about grotesque mass serial murders in Germany, Belgium France etc by sociopathic Jews in 'The Jewish Brigade'. Did you ever see it? Here is another story in the Toronto Star today. The google link below is more durable if you want to save the story - quotes from several news sources. J.

Holocaust `Avengers' recount grisly plot Survivors recall hunting down former SS officers Bread laced with poison fed to Nazis in camps after war (( jsg googled - Bread laced with poison fed to Nazis in camps after war :
Dec. 26, 2005. 01:00 AM
RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI
ASSOCIATED PRESS

JERUSALEM—A group of elderly Holocaust survivors has come forward 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 Friday on Israel Channel Two TV, the survivors — some of whom fought in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising — recounted hunting down former SS officers at night. Disguised as British or American officers, they dragged the men out of their homes and killed them, they said.

Members of the group, code-named "the Avengers," said they 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. Many were reportedly hospitalized but it was unclear if any died.

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,'' Simcha Rotem told Channel Two.

The broadcast focused on a rare reunion of the group earlier this month in a Tel Aviv suburb. With most of the "Avengers" either dead or in their late 70s and 80s, Rotem told The Associated Press they gave in to family pressure to recount their experiences to children and grandchildren and other relatives.

Reports of Jewish death squads have surfaced over the years, and several books have been written. Earlier this year, Israel's government refused a request from Poland to extradite a suspected death squad member.

Aaron Breitbart, senior researcher at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, said the tale of the bread-poisoning plot was plausible.

"This is not a story that somebody is telling out of a hat. There was such a plan. We just don't know how close they got,'' Breitbart said.

The revelations coincide with the release of Steven Spielberg's film Munich, which has drawn attention to another story of revenge — Israel's campaign to hunt down members of the Palestinian group that attacked Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

The attackers killed two Israelis and kidnapped nine others at the Olympic village in Munich, West Germany. All the hostages died later during a botched German rescue attempt.

Some Jews and Israelis have complained Munich distorts history and is too sympathetic to the Palestinian terrorists, though the widows of two of the slain athletes have praised the film.

With their actions part of history, the elderly survivors of "the Avengers" feel they have nothing to lose by speaking publicly about their operations.

One of the few surviving fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Rotem, now 81, spent all of World War II battling the Nazis. At the end of the war, he went to Bucharest, Romania, where he met Nava (Abba) Kovner, the head of a group of Avengers from eastern Poland.

"We walked around for two or three hours and we agreed to things and we began to work. It was very simple," Rotem said.

Rotem, who lives in Jerusalem, said he took charge of a plan to poison 28,000 SS officers imprisoned by the Americans at Dachau and Nuremberg in Germany.

"I wanted to finish off the SS officers who were held by the Americans ... unfortunately we did not succeed," he said.

Another plan, carried out in part by Joseph Harmatz, was more successful, they said. Harmatz found work at a bakery that supplied bread to U.S.-run prisoner camps. He said he received arsenic in rubber bottles from Paris, which he then used to poison 3,000 loaves of bread.

He said about 2,280 SS men ate the bread, but he did not know if any died. News reports at the time said more than 200 people were hospitalized, but mentioned no deaths.

"We fled (the Nazis) and we took revenge," Harmatz told Channel Two. "We saw ourselves as obligated not to leave Europe so we could settle accounts with the Germans."