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The Jewish Plot To Kill Millions of Germans As Revenge For the Holocaust
An eye for an eye, a nation for a nation
In 1945, Abba Kovner visited the site of the Ponary Massacre. He would stare down into the pit where 100,000 people had been brutally murdered and dumped and begin to feel a pulsating rage that would go on to define him for years to come. After seeing evidence of the massacre, he visited the concentration at Majdanek.
Following the surrender of Germany in May, rumors began to abound of a terrible crime. There were whispers that thousands, perhaps millions, had been murdered in cold, calculated death camps and that the victims were mostly Jews. Kovner decided he had to see this evidence for himself. And he found it.
Abba Kovner was a guerilla fighter during World War II leading attacks against German occupation in the Jewish ghettos of Eastern Europe. After the war, he was determined to get to the truth of the rumors about the Holocaust. Once it became clear to him that the Germans had indiscriminately murdered his fellow Jews and other Eastern European undesirables, he decided that his next course of action was going to be large-scale revenge. If the Germans could do it, so could the Jews.
