22. This Doctor Experimented on Human Subjects in Nazi Concentration Camps
Dr. Kurt Blome also experimented on concentration camp prisoners at Dachau and Buchenwald, infesting them with typhus-carrying lice in order to study how to best cause an epidemic. In 1943, he also proposed spreading malaria amongst targeted populations artificially, by dropping infected mosquitoes from airplanes. He also researched spreading animal diseases amongst British, American, and Soviet livestock from the air. In addition, he tested nerve gasses such as sarin and tabun on Auschwitz inmates. After the war, he was captured by US Army intelligence, and during interrogations, admitted to numerous medical atrocities.
There was ample evidence of crimes against Blome. Between that and his admissions, there was more than enough to send him to the gallows. However, American officials intervened in a war crimes trial to get him acquitted. Soon thereafter, he was interviewed by representatives from Camp Detrick, Maryland, the center of America’s biological warfare program. He was then hired by the US Army Chemical Corps to work on top-secret chemical and biological warfare projects that remain classified to this day.