In the aftermath of World War II, there were a group of Jews called 'the Jewish Avengers' which would perform extrajudicial executions of anyone they thought was a Nazi. These Avengers were made up of ghetto resistance fighters, partisans, Jewish soldiers of the British Army, etc. This vigilante justice was also meted out to Nazi collaborators.
However, for one group called the Nakam (The Hebrew word for revenge), assassinating individual Nazis was not good enough for them. Led by Abba Kovner, their plan was in the vein of 'an eye for an eye'
Their plan? Poison the water supplies of Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Nuremberg, and Weimar and kill six million Germans, mirorring the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust.
Codenamed Plan A, this was a plan Abba Kovner seriously considered and was prepared to carry out.
Kovner went to Palestine to both get the poison and support from the Jewish leadership. After David Ben Gurion rejected the plan, Kovner went to Ephraim Katzir and his brother, two microbiologists in Chaim Weizmann's chemistry lab for the poison. The Katzirs gave Kovner the poison. Kovner and a accomplice then boarded a British destroyer, en route to Germany. However, Kovner was arrested while en route, but he was able to throw the poison overboard. As a result, Plan A was abandoned and Kovner was imprisoned in Cairo for a few months.
However, there was a similarly planned attack, which was carried out, on 12,200 SS guards being held as prisoners in Germany. The Katziers later claimed the poison Kovner requested was for this plan and not for Plan A. Nobody died in this attack.
No one knows how Kovner was arrested. Some say the Zionists tipped off the British because they feared Kovner's plan, had it been carried out, would've blown back on the Jewish people and prevented them from obtaining a homeland in Palestine.
But what if Kovner had not been arrested and made his way back to Germany and attempted to carry out this attack?
However, for one group called the Nakam (The Hebrew word for revenge), assassinating individual Nazis was not good enough for them. Led by Abba Kovner, their plan was in the vein of 'an eye for an eye'
Their plan? Poison the water supplies of Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Nuremberg, and Weimar and kill six million Germans, mirorring the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust.
Codenamed Plan A, this was a plan Abba Kovner seriously considered and was prepared to carry out.
Kovner went to Palestine to both get the poison and support from the Jewish leadership. After David Ben Gurion rejected the plan, Kovner went to Ephraim Katzir and his brother, two microbiologists in Chaim Weizmann's chemistry lab for the poison. The Katzirs gave Kovner the poison. Kovner and a accomplice then boarded a British destroyer, en route to Germany. However, Kovner was arrested while en route, but he was able to throw the poison overboard. As a result, Plan A was abandoned and Kovner was imprisoned in Cairo for a few months.
However, there was a similarly planned attack, which was carried out, on 12,200 SS guards being held as prisoners in Germany. The Katziers later claimed the poison Kovner requested was for this plan and not for Plan A. Nobody died in this attack.
No one knows how Kovner was arrested. Some say the Zionists tipped off the British because they feared Kovner's plan, had it been carried out, would've blown back on the Jewish people and prevented them from obtaining a homeland in Palestine.
But what if Kovner had not been arrested and made his way back to Germany and attempted to carry out this attack?