Channel 4 (UK) Documentaries

Holocaust: The Revenge Plot (2018x5)

Uitzenddatum: Jan 27, 2018

Documentary, making use of previously undisclosed recordings and candid interviews to tell the story of the Avengers, a secret organisation of Holocaust survivors who came up with a brutal plot in 1946 to seek vengeance on behalf of the six million Jews killed by Hitler and the Nazis. In the dying days of the Second World War, `warrior-poet' Abba Kovner came to the conclusion that the prosecution of a handful of Nazis would not amount to justice, and instead claimed only `an eye for an eye' could possibly redress the balance. With the help of a band of like-minded individuals, Kovner planned to murder six million Germans by infiltrating cities and poisoning water supplies. This film also showcases a clandestine recording, made in 1985 at the dying Kovner's request, that identifies all the leading conspirators and how they carried out their operations