{"id":53737,"date":"2016-04-20T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=53737"},"modified":"2016-04-20T12:20:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T17:20:00","slug":"american-plot-kill-hitler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/history\/american-plot-kill-hitler\/","title":{"rendered":"The American Plot to Kill Hitler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tablet Magazine has this amazing story about a failed plot by a group of Jewish American gangsters to kill Hitler:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cIn 1933, I was approached by someone respectable, a Jew not involved in any criminal activity, and asked for my help. He wanted me to contact some of my underworld pals in a plan to kill Hitler.\u201d I stared at the man sitting across from me. I was incredulous. A plan to kill Hitler in 1933? Involving Jewish American mobsters? Was he serious? The story seemed far-fetched, a <em>bube<\/em> <em>meyseh<\/em> (old wives\u2019 tale). I was skeptical.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Still, I wrote down what he told me. He said the hit man or men selected for the job had to be Yiddish speakers, so they could get around any language problems in Germany. He said they would be paid $2,500 plus expenses. He said the \u201crespectable Jew\u201d told him, \u201cThere are people in Germany ready to assist us.\u201d This is how he remembered the scheme to kill Hitler.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">My source\u2019s nickname was \u201cDutch.\u201d He was one of the elderly \u201cretired\u201d mobsters I interviewed for my book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/But-Was-Good-His-Mother\/dp\/9652292494\">But He Was Good to His Mother: The Lives and Crimes of Jewish Gangsters<\/a><\/em>. According to my notes, I met him on Aug. 15, 1988, at the Picasso Caf\u00e9 in Herzlia Pituah, an upscale seaside suburb of Herzliya, 15 miles north of Tel Aviv. When we met, he was living in Israel. He said, \u201cMy friends call me Dutch. You seem OK, so call me Dutch, too.\u201d This was our only face-to-face meeting, and he asked me not to use his family name while he was still breathing. I promised him I would not. He died in 1993. Later I learned his last name was Goldberg. As far as I know, I was the last person he spoke to about this.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/jewish-news-and-politics\/199949\/the-jewish-plot-to-kill-hitler\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tablet Magazine has this amazing story about a failed plot by a group of Jewish American gangsters to kill Hitler: \u201cIn 1933, I was approached by someone respectable, a Jew not involved in any criminal activity, and asked for my help. 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