Did Avengers Kill Nazis After WWII?

What if I told you the original Avengers weren’t comic book heroes—but real-life Nazi hunters?

Right after WWII, a secret group of Jewish survivors formed a revenge squad called Nakam, meaning 'vengeance.' Their

goal?

To kill thousands of Nazis who escaped justice.

And they had a chilling plan to do it—by poisoning German prisoners of war.

Led by Abba Kovner, a poet turned resistance fighter, the Avengers infiltrated a bakery that supplied bread to

a Nazi POW camp in Nuremberg.

They laced 3,000 loaves with arsenic.

The plan was simple: feed the enemy their last meal.

It was one of the boldest acts of post-war retribution ever attempted.

On April 13, 1946, the poisoned bread was delivered.

Within hours, over 2,000 German prisoners fell violently ill.

Though no official deaths were confirmed, British and American authorities were alarmed.

The operation, known as Plan A, was partially successful—but the full extent of its impact remains a mystery

to this day.

The Avengers had even bigger plans—Plan B involved poisoning entire city water supplies in Germany.

But Kovner was arrested before it could happen.

The group disbanded, their story buried for decades.

Today, they’re remembered not as villains, but as survivors who chose vengeance over silence.

History’s real Avengers were far more dangerous than fiction.