FOIA-POWERED STORY: Jewish avenger’s sole regret: No Nazis died in post-war arsenic plot

STORY CLIP: 70 years later, it’s still not clear why bid to poison 12,000 SS men held by the Americans in Nuremberg failed; Joseph Harmatz, 91, is adamant that it was his ‘duty’ to try

WITHOUT FOIA

Without FOIA, The AP would not have determined how serious this effort to kill Nazis right after World War II was. FOIA helped AP obtain records showing that the amounts of arsenic likely used should have been lethal.