Masters Of Revenge
Following the conclusion of World War II in 1945, a group of Jewish survivors formed an organization known as the Nokmim, meaning “avengers” in Hebrew. Their mission was to track down and locate Nazi soldiers, whom they sought to murder in retaliation for the atrocities of the Holocaust. In 1946, the Nokmim embarked on a daring operation that took them inside Stalag 13, a prison housing German soldiers. Their investigation discovered that all the bread supplied to the prison came from a single bakery. With this crucial information, they devised a plan to exact their revenge.
Arye Distel, a member of the Nokmim, infiltrated the bakery staff and covertly smuggled bottles of arsenic into the facility, concealing them beneath the floorboards. Once they had accumulated enough arsenic, three Nokmim members accessed the bakery during a shift change and meticulously coated three thousand loaves of bread with the deadly poison. The consequences of their act were severe, resulting in over two thousand prisoners falling seriously ill, with between two and three hundred reportedly losing their lives due to the poisoning. However, recent reports have cast doubt on the accuracy of these casualty figures, suggesting that no deaths occurred as a direct result of the poisoning.
