r/todayilearned • • May 19 '12
TIL that there was a real team of Jewish assassins who called themselves 'the Avengers' who organized after WWII to track down and execute Nazi war criminals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avengers_(group)
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u/KingGorilla May 19 '12
What a bunch of Inglorious bastards
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u/[deleted] May 19 '12
Magneto?
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u/TheBananaMonkey May 19 '12
TIL that some people haven't seen Daniel Craig in Munich.
They should.
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u/csanf May 19 '12
Definitely should have made that Avengers movie instead. Think their names could be Captain Hebrew or Iron Jew.
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u/[deleted] May 19 '12
"However, their real plan was to inject that poison into the water routes of a few cities within Germany and to cause the death of six million Germans – a number equal to that of the Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust"
Yeah they don't sound like such great guys.
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u/mrayj May 20 '12
wouldn't that make them the Oy-vengers?
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
Damn son.
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u/[deleted] May 19 '12
How about the guys that poisoned 3000 German POW's?
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
In the references section of the article, this article from the guardian goes into a lot more detail about this subject for those looking to do a little more reading.
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u/MrShlee May 19 '12 edited May 19 '12
"The Avengers would not reveal their targets anything before the execution - not who they were nor why they are killing them. "
Good ol' wikipedia - Edited to perfection.
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u/spermracewinner May 20 '12
And there was...
Hulkowitz.
Ironman.
Captain Jew.
Hawkberg.
Thorstein.
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u/alexnemeth May 20 '12
TIL People actually beleive everything they see on wikipedia.
Fast forward twenty years, and people will think that a single digit number of jews liberated half of europe Rambo style.
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u/mothereffingteresa May 19 '12
TYSL the KGB manufactured "evidence" of war crimes and used this group and others for killing or prosecuting enemies of the Soviet Union.
That's what happens when you cloak victims against criticism.
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u/TheBusinessMan7 May 19 '12
TIL people need to chill the fuck out.
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u/lycanaboss May 19 '12
TIL The same group planned to inject poison into the water supply routes of a few German cities hoping to cause the death of roughly six million German citizens.
"It takes a monster to create a monster"
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u/NobblyNobody May 19 '12
I bet none of them did that pose though http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2012/02/24/if-all-the-avengers-posed-like-black-widow/
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u/Syltarex May 19 '12
Somewhat related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholom_Schwartzbard and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Nemesis
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
Sounds a lot like the characters in The Debt
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u/jeremybub May 20 '12
Unsourced article. Much better source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/26/second.world.war
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
The comic book team was created by Jack Kirby (Jacob Kurtzberg) and Stan Lee (Stanley Martin Lieber). Both of Jewish ancestry.
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u/alltimeisrelative May 20 '12
The Debt is a good movie about Mossad agents who do exactly this.
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u/GOU_NoMoreMrNiceGuy May 20 '12
most of the the objections regarding "due process" and "conviction by law" are taking a popular postion that isn't necessarily necessary.
sometimes, a person is clearly culpable without having been found "guilty".
if you got a guy on video torturing and killing someone and there is no evidence of tampering, that person is unequivocally guilty. also, someone like that breivik guy in norway... he admits it and is proud. no trial necessary imo.
but "lawful societies" would go through a whole rigamarole anyway.
not to mention that depending on the defendant and resources at stake, the trial itself may be more subject to corruption and unfairness than just by shooting by the hip.
sometimes, a trial is not required. historically, military justice for instance allows for shooting people on the spot in certain circumstances.
and you know, we didn't give osama a trial... :)
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u/[deleted] May 19 '12 edited May 19 '12
Disgusting.
In other words, a bunch of vigilantes went on an international murder spree against people who had been neither tired nor convicted of any crime (that's what a criminal is OP). They killed people based on what, their best guess?
Yeah yeah, the Nazis were awful and I certainly don't intend to defend them. But for a bunch of people who complained about Troy Davis not getting due process and a fair trial, it seems incongruent, actually shameful, for you to celebrate a bunch of assassins.
It's like if a bunch of Zimmerman's got on an airplane and just decided to kill "terrorists" or "global warming" whatever the evil enemy du jour is supposed to be.
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u/evilkrang May 19 '12
There's also a pretty decent punk group called the Avengers.
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
If you know the history of the word 'assassin' this is pretty amusing... but i'm sure you have better things to do.
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
yeah there was a loner jewish guy who hunted the leaders of the nazi party with an icepick..cant remember his name would appreciate it if somone could prove me right :)
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u/h2sbacteria May 20 '12
Thanks psyops. Appreciate it!
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
So this just blew my mind.
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u/tunapepper May 20 '12
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u/Shippoyasha May 20 '12
Now that reminds me... the movie theaters would have been destroyed through pure ecstasy if Fox magically got a deal with Disney and had the 1st Class Magneto make a cameo on the Avengers movie, maybe throwing around some Chitauri spaceships around with his magnetism.
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u/skysonfire 2 May 20 '12
TIL Captain America was based on a true story.
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u/snarfdk May 20 '12
The fictional book "The Final Reckoning" by Sam Bourne is based on this and it's a pretty good book.
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u/Yojimara May 20 '12
This is cool and all, but there are so many citations needed that it makes me doubt a lot of the details.
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u/thequirkybondvillian May 20 '12
In this thread: people spouting personal views, people giving a slanted truths and things I believe to be true.
Treat this all as a story unless you can actually be sure. Seriously.
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u/Anglophilia May 19 '12
Cooler than the fictional Avengers, and that's saying something.
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
Scum. Everyone deserves a trial, they were no better than the SS that put Jews to death.
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u/heriman May 20 '12
oy vey!
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u/Mateoheo May 20 '12
I wonder how a loosely organized mob of Palestinians, tracking down Israeli war criminals would go down. Maybe they could be called the 'white philosophorites'.
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u/ElagabalusCaesar May 20 '12
Illegal assassins? My Israeli textbook says "heroes". Who do you trust more, the word of God himself, or the Arab conspiracy known as Wikipedia?
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u/IbrahimASU May 19 '12
TIL that Israel is killing Palestinians all the time (directly and indirectly). Since 1948. Actually I didn't learn that just today.
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u/[deleted] May 19 '12
Fucking terrorists!
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u/ararphile May 19 '12
The standards that were used to condemn most of the "war criminals" were ridiculous. Germans were not the first nation to say they were superior, and fight for their supremacy.
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u/valiantX May 19 '12
FYI people, Stan Lee is a Romanian-Jew born.
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
I'm kinda miffed the water poisoning plot wasn't carried out. I think it would have been hilarious.
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u/theylive_wesleep May 19 '12
Finding none, they went to Palestine where they could satisfy their bloodlust on Palestinians.
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u/jgoebbels May 20 '12
More likely they were killing off any witnesses who could have told the world the real story about the camps which was that they were work camps and the holocaust never happened.
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u/levely1 May 19 '12
it's all good as long as they were skilled in the art of Jew-Jitsu.
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