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Nokmim (The Avengers) were Jewish partisans who later formed the organization Nakam (Revenge), with a plan to poison the water supply of German cities as a revenge for the Holocaust. They successfully poisoned several hundred German POWs with arsenic-laced bread. I’d like to know more about them.

by /u/LukeInTheSkyWith in /r/AskHistorians

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