On page 100 it has one of those claims that I am never sure if they are true or the Israelis are big noting themselves
[20] The AvengersVengence squads were busy compiling hit lists and going in search of the people who had tortured them. "The method of those seeking revenge was simple," Tom Segev observed, having spoken to former members of these hit squads. "They disguised themselves as British military policemen and appeared at their victims' houses in a military pickup truck, its license plates obscured with mud. They would knock on the door, ascertain the identity of the man, and ask him to come with them for some sort of routine procedure. In general, there were no problems. They would take their victim to a predesignated location, identify themselves, and shoot him."
Naturally Eichmann was also on a hit list. In 1966 Michael Bar Zohar, an Israeli author who excellent relationship with David Ben Gurion and Moshe Dayan, managed to speak to the leader of the unit that had hunted Eichmann. As they were carrying out surveillance on Vera Eichmann, the men noticed that she and her brother-in-law often went to a secluded villa. They followed her and Eichmann's brother to this house, in which four men were living a decidedly secretive life. The four men left the premises only at night and received provisions covertly. One evening the team accosted the man they took to be Eichmann as he was taking a walk, and said they were from Palestine. He replied arrogantly, "You can't do anything to me," whereupon he was shot and fatally wounded[20]. Many years later Tom Segev spoke to Shimon Avidan, who had been part of that team. Avidan told him that everyone was convinced they had caught the Adviser on Jewish Affairs, but Avidan had been less sure[21]. Eichmann, who read about the incident later in a magazine sent from Austria, always spoke of this execution with a strange pride[???]
[21] The Seventh Million
[???] Source for the Eichmann claim?
Could Israelis just wander around Austria and kill random people they thought were Eichmann without any consequences? Is the location, date and identity of this hit known? If we believe Stangneth the event was featured in a contemporary magazine article, but she doesn't give a reference to the article or give a reference for the strange pride of Eichmann
But Jewish Death Squads more generally, there is a wealth of claims for their existence, but a paucity of actual victims. Does anyone know of any suspected victims of these squads.
MIght August Hirt be one such victim? He is supposed to have committed suicide in a forest in June 1945. The fact he killed himself in a remote location is consistent with the claimed modus operandi
There also claims, difficult to source authoritatively, that he was exhumed later by Mossad. That would suggest that they knew precisely he was buried.
Die Namen Der Nummern by Hans-Joachim Lang page 214
Frederick Kasten wissen, dass der israelische Geheimdienst Mossad in den 1950er Jahren heimlich Hirts Grab geöffnet habe
And from the Master Plan by Heather Pringle
Its a bit tentative, does anyone know any names of people killed by such squads?According to medical historian Frederick Kasten, the Israeli secret service contacted officials in the Black Forest region and had them exhume the body of the man who commited suicide there in the early summer of 1945. An Israeli pathologist conclusively identified the bones as those of Dr. August Hirt. Kersten "Unethical nazi Medicine in Annexed Alsace-Lorraine," Historians and Archivists: Essays in Modern German History and Archival Policy, ed. George O. Kent 1991]
