Kurt Blome

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Kurt Blome
Blome as defendant in the Doctors' Trial, Nuremberg
Deputy Reich Health Leader
In office 20 April 1939 – 1945
Leader	Leonardo Conti
Preceded by	Hans Deuschl [de]
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Personal details
Born	(1894-01-31)31 January 1894 Bielefeld, German Empire
Died	10 October 1969(1969-10-10) (aged 75) Dortmund, West Germany
Political party	Nazi Party
Scientific career
Fields	Virologist
Institutions	Riems Island, German Reich
Criminality
Criminal status	Acquitted
Criminal charge	War crimes Crimes against humanity
Trial	Doctors' Trial

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.^[1] Although he was acquitted of war crimes charges at the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial, this was 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.^[2]