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The Jewish Brigade also joined groups of Holocaust survivors in forming assassination squads known as the [[Nakam]], for the purpose of tracking down and killing former [[SS]] and [[Wehrmacht]] officers who had participated in atrocities against European Jews. Information regarding the whereabouts of these fugitives was gathered either by torturing imprisoned Nazis or by way of military connections. The British uniforms, military documentation, equipment, and vehicles used by Jewish Brigade veterans greatly contributed to the success of the Nokmim. The number of Nazis the Nokmim killed is unknown, but may have been as high as 1,500.<ref>Morris Beckman, ''The Jewish Brigade'', p. 213</ref><ref>Ian Black and Benny Morris: ''Israel's Secret Wars: A History of Israel's Intelligence Services'', p. 188</ref><ref name=vengeance>{{cite book|last=Beckham|first=Morris|author-link=Morris Beckman (writer)|title=The Jewish Brigade: An Army With Two Masters, 1944-45|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kEs4QwAACAAJ&q=The+Jewish+Brigade:+An+Army+With+Two+Masters,+1944-45.|year=1999|publisher=Sarpedon Publishers|isbn=1-885119-56-9}}{{Dead link|date=May 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> There were also at least two instances in which Brigade veterans were implicated in the assassinations of Jewish Kapos. Kangaroo courts executed two Kapos, one by gunshot and another by drowning him in a river.<ref name=":0" />