In 1946 a small group of former resistance fighters, led by Josep Harmatz, developed a plan to kill thousands of SS men being held by the Americans in a prison camp-Stalag 13-near Nuremberg. The date was April 13, 1946 and members of a group called Nakam (Hebrew for vengeance) used their work in a bakery to prepare 3000 loafs of bread laced with arsenic. The operation went into effect with enough arsenic to kill the 12,000 SS men in the camp, but it did not. This all came to light with a recently declassified US military report with the issue of why no one died a mystery. Mr. Harmatz recently died in Tel Aviv.
(Source: "Holocaust Avenger dies at 91" by Aron Heller of the AP. Reported in The Record on Sep 27, 2016.)
Update: Google Joseph Harmatz and then "Nakam" will come up. Its worth reading.
Update: Google Joseph Harmatz and then "Nakam" will come up. Its worth reading.
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