{"id":53569,"date":"2016-03-31T11:41:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T16:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=53569"},"modified":"2016-04-07T17:21:33","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T22:21:33","slug":"the-nazi-who-became-a-mossad-hitman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/history\/the-nazi-who-became-a-mossad-hitman\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nazi Who Became a Mossad Hitman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 11, 1962, a German scientist vanished. The basic facts were simple: Heinz Krug had been at his office, and he never came home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-disqus-identifier=\"336943.0ji\">The only other salient detail known to police in Munich was that Krug commuted to Cairo frequently. He was one of dozens of Nazi rocket experts who had been hired by Egypt to develop advanced weapons for that country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-disqus-identifier=\"336943.0q8\">HaBoker, a now defunct Israeli newspaper, surprisingly claimed to have the explanation: The Egyptians kidnapped Krug to prevent him from doing business with Israel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/news\/336943\/ht\/#ixzz44V1J2Skm\">Read the whole story in <em>The Forward<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 11, 1962, a German scientist vanished. The basic facts were simple: Heinz Krug had been at his office, and he never came home. The only other salient detail known to police in Munich was that Krug commuted to Cairo frequently. He was one of dozens of Nazi rocket experts who had been hired<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":730,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Nazi Who Became a Mossad Hitman - OU Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/history\/the-nazi-who-became-a-mossad-hitman\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Nazi Who Became a Mossad Hitman - OU Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On September 11, 1962, a German scientist vanished. 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