Tilhas Teezee Gesheften known as TTG was a group of officers of the Jewish Brigade of the British Army who shortly after the end of World War II in Europe proceeded to execute Germans involved in atrocities against the Jews.
The name of the unit was "code". Literally her name is abusive (referring to the opponent's behind). TTG was founded by Yisrael Karmi , an officer of the Jewish Brigade, who had joined the British Army as early as 1939.
In June 1945 Carmi and his men crossed from Italy to Germany and visited Mauthausen concentration camp to gather information about the rumors still circulating about the Holocaust, the extent of which no one had yet realized. These men gathered information and thus Carmi decided on the formation of TTG.
Carmi collected 18 pages of names of war criminals to be executed through a Gestapo officer whom he threatened to kill if he did not speak. As soon as they had the names and addresses, Carmi and his men went into action.
Carmi and his men forged papers and military IDs to fool the British and executed hundreds of German, Austrian and Italian fascists involved in the Holocaust. The number of those executed is not known, but some sources speak of over 1,500.
"We had a lot of anger. We felt that our participation in the war against the Germans was not enough. We decided, a few of us, to take revenge on those involved in the Holocaust. We knew we couldn't find them all, but at least we would find some. We read the charges to those we found and killed them, usually by strangulation," a member of the group later said in an interview.
Soon, however, the rage for revenge faded and TTG took on the mission of rescuing Jewish survivors whom it was secretly helping to resettle in Palestine. He also worked with the Jewish Hagana (Defence) in Palestine, preparing for the creation of a Jewish state. Most members of the TTG also crossed over to the newly established state of Israel and fought against the Arabs in 1948.