They weren’t singling out Nazis, they were going after Germans after WWII was over. Hardly worthy of a medal.
Jewish Press: They were 60 Jews altogether, who arrived in Germany after the war with the ultimate purpose of carrying out an operation so terrible it would cause international response as a warning to anyone conspiring to harm Jews again. According to at least one source, in 1946 the group planned to kill six million Germans by poisoning the drinking water of Munich, Berlin, Weimar, Nuremberg and Hamburg. After that plan had failed, Nakam members painted about 3,000 loaves of bread with diluted arsenic, and the loaves were served 12,000 German POWs in a US Army internment camp near Nuremberg. According to the AP, 1900 German POWs were poisoned and all of them became “seriously ill.” According to then Nakam leader Joseph Harmatz, 300 to 400 Germans died. He said this “was nothing compared with what we really wanted to do.”
