19 Facts About Kurt Blome

Kurt Blome was a high-ranking Nazi scientist before and during World War II.

Kurt Blome was the Deputy Reich Health Leader and Plenipotentiary for Cancer Research in the Reich Research Council.

Kurt Blome only admitted that he had been ordered in 1943 to experiment with plague vaccines on concentration camp prisoners.

Kurt Blome served in the German Army during World War I In 1918 or 1919, Blome joined the Freikorps.

Kurt Blome was an early member of the Nazi Party, which he joined in 1922, and the Sturmabteilung.

Kurt Blome worked on methods of storage and dispersal of biological agents like plague, cholera, anthrax, and typhoid, and infected prisoners with plague in order to test the efficacy of vaccines.

In 1943, Kurt Blome proposed spreading malaria "artificially by means of mosquitoes" and experimented on prisoners at Dachau and Buchenwald with lice in order to cause typhus epidemics.

Kurt Blome worked on aerosol dispersants and methods of spraying nerve agents like Tabun and Sarin from aircraft, and tested the effects of these gases on prisoners at Auschwitz.

Farben had developed nerve gas in 1936 as a result of its research into insecticides, and Kurt Blome's duties included preparing defensive measures against possible Allied use of insect-borne biological weapons, either in a first strike or in retaliation for German use of such weapons.

On orders from Himmler in 1944, Kurt Blome tested these on inmates at Auschwitz.

Kurt Blome fled from Posen in January 1945 just ahead of the Red Army, and was unable to have the facilities completely destroyed.

Kurt Blome brought his biological cultures with him from Poland, and was still promising Hitler a Wunderwaffe or 'miracle weapon' that would turn the tide of war in Germany's favor, but the Geraburg facility was captured by the US Army in April 1945, along with its records and equipment.

Kurt Blome was arrested in Munich on 17 May 1945 by the United States Counter Intelligence Corps.

In 1943 Kurt Blome was studying bacteriological warfare, although officially he was involved in cancer research, which was however only a camouflage.

Kurt Blome additionally served as deputy health minister of the Reich.

Kurt Blome was hired by Sidney Gottlieb to work on the MK-Ultra program.

Kurt Blome worked there on a never-declassified top secret project labeled in Blome's foreign scientist case file as "Army, 1952, Project 1975".

Kurt Blome was not arrested or charged with war crimes again after his acquittal at the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial in 1947.

Kurt Blome continued to practice medicine in West Germany, and was active in politics as a member of the national-conservative German Party.