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Bruno Nikolaus Maria Weber (21 May 1915 in Trier – 23 September 1956 in Homburg) was a German physician, bacteriologist and Hauptsturmführer (1944), at Auschwitz, in the branch of the Hygiene Institute of the Waffen SS. He was chief of the Hygienic Institute. He organized experiments involving the interaction of different human blood types in unwilling prisoner-patients. He also conducted experiments using barbiturates and morphine derivatives for mind-control purposes.[1] [2] He was made Obersturmführer der reserve on the 20th of April, 1943, SS-Sanitatsamt, and given the SS number 420759.
After the war, he was charged with murdering prisoners. He is also known to have experimented with the use of psychotropic drugs during interrogation. On the ramp in the Birkenau camp, he took part in the selection of Jews deported to Auschwitz, the majority of whom were murdered by the Nazis in the gas chambers immediately after arrival.
- ^ "Auschwitz-Birkenau - New Publication on the Conservation of the Auschwitz SS-Hygiene Institut Documents". En.auschwitz.org. 2011-08-25. Retrieved 2012-11-24.
- ^ Nazi Doctors