Nakam

Nakam (Dim Yehudi Nakam - Avenge Jewish Blood) was an extremist Jewish organization, which was founded by Abba Kovner in 1945 with the aim of avenging the Holocaust.

An assassination attempt by Nakam took place on 14 April 1946 at the Langwasser internment camp near Nuremberg. Bread for 12000 to 15000 German POWs (mostly SS members) was reputedly painted with diluted arsenic. According to the New York Times in 1946, there were 207 ill in hospital but none died.

The public prosecutor's office within the higher regional court at Nuremberg stopped the preliminary investigation in May 2000 of attempted murder against two NAKAM activists, who professed to have committed the act. The reason stated by the public prosecutor's office for not proceeding was "Verjährung (statute of limitations?) due to unusual circumstances".

Literature

 * Jim G. Tobias, Peter Zinke:  Jüdische Rache an NS-Tätern (Broschiert), Konkret Literaturverlag 2000, ISBN 3894581948

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