While the group members were preparing to carry out the mission, Kovner was supposed to provide them with the poison, but he lingered too long during his visit to Palestine. Only in December 1945 did he return to Europe, disguised as a soldier returning from leave. According to his testimony, before boarding the ship friends in the Hagana (the pre-state military force) provided him with poison packaged in tubes of toothpaste and shaving cream. However, on his way back he was detained by the British on the deck, after his forged papers aroused suspicion. The poison, which he was holding, was tossed into the sea.

Plan B: poisoning the bread

After his detention, the aspiring avengers waiting in Europe were determined to act, and switched to Plan B – poisoning the bread of German prisoners of war. The plot was supposed to be carried out simultaneously in the Nuremberg and Dachau detention camps in mid-April 1946.

In advance Leibke Distel, one of the avengers, managed to be hired to work in the Nuremberg bakery that supplied the bread to the captives in the nearby camp. “He first thought to inject poison into the bags of flour in the warehouse, later into the dough mixers, and finally he reached the conclusion, after consulting with the group members, that the poison should be spread on the bottom of the loaves,” writes Porat.

Distel gradually rose through the ranks until he was placed in the bread warehouse and learned how to arrange the loaves for delivery. There he discovered that the black bread was for the German captives, while the American staff received the better, more expensive white bread.

The poison was smuggled to them from a different source. “When the poison arrived we raised a toast,” said Verbin-Shabetzky in her testimony. Distel smuggled the poison to the bakery in bottles stashed under a raincoat. In the bakery he hid them under the wooden floor. At night, after the other workers had left the bakery, the bottles were removed from beneath the floor boards. At the same time other members of the group emerged from the large bread baskets, where they had been hiding and started spreading poison on the loaves with brushes. In the midst of the work, when they had poisoned 3,000 loaves, they paused to kiss each other in joy.

The AP New Agency reported a few days later that 2,000 people had suffered from stomach poisoning, with some in serious condition. However, to the regret of the avengers, none of them died. In 2016, on the 70th anniversary of the affair, the documents of an American investigation committee that was appointed at the time were opened to the public. Porat found that the U.S. authorities had failed to discover who the perpetrators were, but the report said the poison was of high quality and could have killed tens of thousands of people. So what happened along the way? Porat relies on the testimony of the avengers, who found “a failure in the chemical compound.”

Meanwhile, other activists, headed by Simcha Rotem (Kazhik), one of the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, planned to poison the loaves of bread in the Dachau concentration camp, where Germans were also detained after the war. After months of preparation, they managed to become friendly with Poles who were in charge of the local bakery. Kazik even managed to get the bakery manager drunk, steal the keys from him, duplicate them and return them while he was still drunk. But while they were waiting for the poison in order to spread it on the loaves of bread, the activists were suddenly informed by a messenger that the activity had been called off.

Could the failure and cancellation have been deliberate, after senior officials – perhaps even Kovner himself – realized that they had gone too far? The sources provide no answer. However, it’s not certain that the answer is important.

Porat welcomes the failure of the plan, because of the tremendous damage it could have caused the Jewish people. As a historian, it was difficult for her to reconcile the disparity between the personalities of the avengers – members of the youth movements who had received a Jewish and Zionist education – and the horrifying act they planned to execute.

She asked one of the avengers who had poisoned the loaves, “How can a nice person like you think about such an act, in which innocent women and children would also have certainly been killed.” She says that he replied: “If you had been there with me, at the end of the war, you wouldn’t talk that way.” Another, Yehuda (Poldak) Meimon, said “it’s what they deserved.”

A nationalist response

After the meetings with the avengers she understood, she says, that the revenge they planned was supposed to be, as they saw it, “an overt and nationalist response by a nation that was murdered against a nation that murdered, a revenge that would be publicized all over the world, which would harm millions.” Revenge that would constitute a general warning to all the other nations of the world that “Jewish blood will not be forsaken again.”

“To our regret, the group did not succeed in completing the mission it took upon itself,” wrote several members of the avengers. “But even its establishment and its desire to take revenge against the Germans and to harm them – is an act of great importance.”

In addition to Kovner’s 50 people, whose activity is documented in the new study, several dozen other Jews were involved in acts of revenge against the Germans. While Kovner’s avengers “wanted to act openly and on a huge scale,” others acted clandestinely, choosing individual targets, she says.

Some of the avengers eventually became senior officials in the Israeli defense establishment, such as Chaim Laskov, Meir Zorea, Shimon Avidan and Yisrael Carmi. After the founding of the state, acts of revenge were carried out against former Nazis by members of the Mossad as well. It’s difficult to impossible to determine how many Germans and collaborators were murdered in these acts of revenge.

"We can assume, based on the existing documentation and the overall context of that post-war period, that there were 1,000 to 1,500 at most,” says Porat, who works both at Tel Aviv University and as the chief historian of the Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum. “There were from 200 to 250 Jews responsible for those deaths, people who “refused to accept the possibility that the idea of revenge would exist only as an emotion and an aspiration,” says Porat.

Her study about Kovner’s avengers was recently published in Hebrew in the book “Li Nakam Veshilem” (“Vengeance and retribution are mine”); the name is taken from the Book of Psalms. Porat says that “the purpose of the title is to say that revenge doesn’t come through the hands of human beings, but through the hands of God.”

Although the study and the book recount the Jews’ aspiration to take revenge against the Germans, Porat notes that “most Jews chose the positive path – rather than the path of revenge. By building the country, starting communities and families.” She views this as a credit to the Jewish people. “Despite everything that was done to them, the vast majority chose life.”

YOU SHALL RETURN MINUS 6,000,000

HISTORY & ORIGIN OF THE 6,000,000 NUMBER 

SCRIPTURAL ORIGINS OF THE SIX MILLION NUMBER

The following are two quotes from unpublished sources whose content I have tried -- so far unsuccessfully -- to have verified by rabbinical scholars. I suspect that their ultimate source is the book The Holocaust Dogma of Judaism by Ben Weintraub. The meaning of the second quote is made clearer if one understands something about Gematria, the Kabbalistic practice of interpreting texts by associating words and numbers. This material by itself does not prove the scriptural origins of the Six Million, but in combination with the fact that the number was used in other places (see below), this seems to clinch the case.

Quote 1
Jewish prophecies in the Torah require that 6 million Jews must "vanish" before the state of Israel can be formed. "You shall return minus 6 million."

That's why Tom Segev, an Israeli historian, declared that the "6 million" is an attempt to transform the Holocaust story into state religion. Those six million, according to prophecy, had to disappear in "burning ovens", which the judicial version of the Holocaust now authenticates. As a matter of fact, Robert B. Goldmann writes: ". . . without the Holocaust, there would be no Jewish State."

A simple consequence: Given six million Jews gassed at Auschwitz who ended up in the "burning ovens" (the Greek word holocaust means burned offerings), therefore, the prophecies have now been "fulfilled" and Israel can become a "legitimate state". --Unknown

Quote 2
Regarding the 'six million' number you should know the following:

In the Hebrew text of the Torah prophesies, one can read "you shall return". In the text the letter "V" or "VAU" is absent, as Hebrew does not have any numbers; the letter V stands for the number 6. Ben Weintraub, a religious scientist, learned from rabbis that the meaning of the missing letter means the number is '6 million'. The prophesy then reads:

You will return, but with 6 million less.

See Ben Weintraub: "The Holocaust Dogma of Judaism", Cosmo Publishing, Washington 1995, page 3. The missing 6 million must be so before the Jews can return to the Promised Land. Yahweh sees this as a cleaning of the souls of the sinful people. The Jews must, on the return to the Promised Land, be clean -- the cleaning shall be done in burning stokes. --A Correspondent

EARLIER REFERENCES TO 'SIX MILLION'

A.
On page 482 of the article on 'Anti-Semitism' in the 10th Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica (1902) is found the words:

"While there are in Russia and Rumania six millions of Jews who are being systematically degraded...".

B.
In the American Hebrew Magazine of October 31, 1919, there appeared an article entitled "The Crucifixion of Jews Must Stop!" By Martin H Glynn, former governor of the state of New York. This article begins, "From across the sea, six million men and women call to us for help ...". The article was published approximately 20 years before the outbreak of WW2.

EARLIER EXAGGERATIONS OF THE NUMBERS OF JEWISH VICTIMS BY JEWISH WRITERS THANK ZIONISM FOR THE HOLOCAUST

Many commentators have noted that anti-Semitism does not exist in a vacuum, but instead is a result of the behavior of Jews themselves. This is reinforced by the fact that, at one time or another, Jews have been expelled from virtually every western city, country, state and principality. This, then, suggests strongly -- without consideration of any other historical facts -- that Jews themselves were responsible for the Holocaust. This theme has been elaborated upon by Canadian Jew Henry Makow, who has argued that the Zionists -- that great cheerleading squad for the promotion of Israel -- were themselves responsible for the Holocaust.

CONCLUSION

From the above considerations, the conclusion is obvious: While the Jewish Establishment spends millions and billions of dollars promoting the Orthodox Jewish Version of the Holocaust, the ugly fact is that the Holocaust story is a lie used to promote Jewish interests and pick gentile pockets, and to cover up the fact that -- far from being Eternal Victims -- the Jews are actually ETERNAL VICTIMIZERS.

236 references to 6,000,000 Jews prior to the Nuremberg Trial announcement.

The erudite internet writer known as “Toshiro” has compiled a list of 236 references found in newspapers, magazines and books — spanning 45 years, from 1900 to 1945 — in which Jews have claimed that SIX MILLION Jews were (a) about to be killed, (b) were in the process of being killed, or (c) had been killed.

The words have been repeated like a mantra, a numerological litany from which there is no escape. As there is naturally much repetition, we select here only a handful of these references just to give the reader an idea of the intense process of mass hypnosis that started roughly in 1900 and has been continuing relentlessly for over a hundred years.

Why Six Million?
How do we know the number?

Everyone knows that six million Jews died in the Holocaust. How do we know it? Because everybody else knows it. The figure has been accepted as accurate and without question since as long ago as 1945. But are not  this universal knowledge, certainty and immutability rather unique? How many Ukrainians died in the Second World War? How many civilians died in the sieges of Leningrad and Stalingrad or in the bombing of Tokyo? How many have died in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and its consequences? Nobody really knows, and in this last case you will find figures differing almost by a factor of 10 depending on how you interpret the question, how you gather your evidence, from what sources and who is publishing it, etc. Yet Iraq has beeen open to access by the media and by investigative bodies to an immeasurably greater extent than was the case in Eastern Europe in the Second World War and its aftermath. How many Germans died in the evacuation of the Eastern territories in 1945? You will find figures quoted in a range of 500,000 to 3,000,000, usually more informed by political bias than by demography.

 

The six million figure is broken down quite differently depending on who is doing the calculations, with, in the most extreme case, Lucy Dawidowicz giving 1,300,000 Jewish deaths for the Majdanek camp and Raul Hilberg less than 100,000 of whom 50,000 were Jews. The “official” total for Majdanek today is 78,000 dead, all groups combined. These historians have struggled to reach the Holy Grail of Six Million, with Dawidowicz stopping just short at 5,900,000, Hilberg managing only 5,100,000 and the first in the field, Gerald Reitlinger, falling very short indeed at just over 4,000,000, which perhaps explains why he has fallen into oblivion. Figures for individual camps are regularly revised downward, but the Six Million remains intact and sacrosanct.

The origins of the Six Million
Though the meme of "Six Million Jews" can be traced back to the 19th century, it first gained prominence during WW1 in America. It concerned Russian Jews: at that time the six-million story repeatedly focussed upon what was allegedly happening in Russia -  ‘the six million Jews in Russia’ etc.1915.

·         The Sun NY: six million Jews are being persecuted... 4 June 1915

·         New York Times: Six million souls will need help when war is ended... 18 October, 1918.

·         New York Times: ‘6,000,000 are in peril’ ‘6,000,000 souls .. are going to be completely exterminated – article about Ukrainian Jews, 8 September, 1919.

·         New York Times:Terrible plight of Jews, "worst sufferers in the War": 6,000,000 souls are in dire poverty, starvation..., 12 November 1919

 

Don Heddesheimer’s book, The First Holocaust: Jewish Fundraising Campaigns With Holocaust Claims During and After World War One details the slew of Jewish atrocity propaganda even from before World War I. The First Holocaust features a remarkable collection of press clippings and propaganda articles dating back to the late 19th century whereby claims of the suffering and imminent extermination of European Jewry were used for fundraising. The magic six million number may have got going around the time of the First International Zionist Congress of 1897.

The 1930s and 1940s
The story gradually moved from the US to Europe and in the 1930s came to focus upon what Germany was doing. The Holocaust of European Jews concept first appears in 1936:

·         New York Times 31.5.36: ‘The European Holocaust’

In February 1943 the Reader’s Digest announced that six million Jews were being massacred (in an article by the Jewish Hollywood script-writer Ben Hecht, a supporter of Jewish terrorism in Palestine).

Finally in 1945, "Six million Jews are dead" was proclaimed at Nuremberg.   The total of six million was not the result of any statistical assessment, but the culmination of this mythical story that had been gathering momentum through the first half of the 20th century.

Stories of "Six Million" in the press 1900-45

Between 1900 and 1945, at least 167 references have been found in newspapers and elsewhere to "six million Jews ", usually in a context of  danger, most frequently of mortal danger:

·         1900 - Stephen S. Wise, New York Times, June 11, 1900:  "There are 6,000,000 living, bleeding, suffering arguments in favor of Zionism."

·         1902 - Encyclopaedia Britannica, 10th Edition, Vol. 25, 1902, page 482:  "While there are in Russia and Rumania six millions of Jews who are being systematically degraded ..."

·         1902 - Samuel W. Goldstein, New York Times, November 27, 1902:   "PLEA FOR ZIONISM ... In answer I would say: Does Dr. Silverman represent the 6,000,000 Jews in Russia, 300,000 in Roumania and the 1,000,000 in Galicia?"

·         1944 - Nahum Goldmann, Jewish Western Bulletin, December 8th, 1944:   " ... apart from Jewish losses in combat service, 5,500,000 Jews have been killed in Germany and German-occupied tesritories [territories] since the outbreak of the awr [war]. These figures exceed the number anticipated even by the most pessimistic. ... Yes, the Germans murdered close to six million Jews ... "

·         1944 - Ilya Ehrenburg, Soviet War News, December 22nd, 1944:    "In the regions they seized, Germans killed all Jews, from the old folks to infants in arms. Ask any German prisoners why his fellow countrymen annihilated six million innocent people ... "

·         1945 - New York Times, January 8th, 1945:   "6,000,000 JEWS DEAD. The Jewish population in Europe has been reduced from 9,500,000 in 1939 to 3,500,000. Of the 6,000,000 European Jews who have died, 5,000,000 had lived in the countries under Hitler's occupation."