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13. Jewish Avengers Against Former Nazi Soldiers, 1946: 2,283 Wounded

The Jewish terrorists sought to retaliate for the crimes committed at Auschwitz. Credit: HuffPost

In retaliation for the horrific war crimes of the Holocaust, Jewish units spent decades hunting down former Nazi soldiers and enacting their own form of vigilante justice. On April 14, 1946, a group of Jewish terrorists laced 3000 loaves of bread, destined for a POW camp housing former Nazis, with arsenic.

The plot ultimately failed, and there were no known casualties of the mass arsenic poisoning. Over 2000 former Nazis became sick with cholera-like symptoms, even though the amount of arsenic used was more than enough to cause mass casualties. To this day, no one is sure why the attack failed.

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