January 31, 1894 - Kurt Blome
His postwar trajectory is as revealing as his wartime record: acquitted at Nuremberg in part through American intervention, he was subsequently absorbed into U.S. intelligence programs, suggesting his expertise in biological warfare was considered valuable enough to protect. Blome oversaw the weaponization of disease agents and almost certainly directed experiments on concentration camp prisoners, operating at the intersection of state medicine and mass atrocity. That the full scope of his work was known — and that prosecution was nonetheless undermined — places him within a broader pattern of institutional complicity that extended well beyond Germany.
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Kurt Blome (31 January 1894 – 10 October 1969) was a high-ranking Nazi scientist before and during World War II. He was the Deputy Reich Health Leader (Reichsgesundheitsführer) and Plenipotentiary for Cancer Research in the Reich Research Council. In his autobiography Arzt im Kampf (A Physician's Struggle), he equated medical and military power in their battle for life and death.
Blome was tried at the Doctors' Trial in 1947 on charges of practicing euthanasia and conducting experiments on humans. He only admitted that he had been ordered in 1943 to experiment with plague vaccines on concentration camp prisoners. In reality, starting in 1943 he "assumed responsibility for all research into biological warfare sponsored by the Wehrmacht" and the SS. Blome was acquitted mainly due to the intervention of the United States as his earlier admissions were well known. It was generally accepted that he had indeed participated in chemical and biological warfare experiments on concentration camp inmates.
After the war, the Western Allied Alsos Mission was notified of his biological warfare research. He worked for the US Central Intelligence Agency's MKUltra human experimentation program, and for the US Chemical Corps under a successor program to Operation Paperclip.
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