. NMT02-T0229
Volume II · Page 229
Blome joined the SA in 1931 and became the chief medical officer of the SA in the province of Mecklenburg. In 1934 he was appointed a province office leader, and in the SA he attained a rank equivalent to that of major general. In 1943 he was awarded the highest decoration of the Nazi Party.
As Plenipotentiary for Cancer Research, it was his duty to determine which research problems should be studied and to assign such problems to scientists best fitted to investigate them.
FREEZING EXPERIMENTS
The prosecution argues that Blome is criminally responsible for participation in the freezing experiments as charged in the indictment. In the subparagraph which particularly refers to freezing, Blome is not named among the defendants charged with special responsibility for the experiments. Moreover, the record does not contain evidence which shows beyond a reasonable doubt that Blome bore any responsible part in the conduct of the freezing experiments.
MALARIA EXPERIMENTS
The evidence is insufficient to disclose any criminal responsibility of the defendant in connection with the malaria experiments.
LOST GAS EXPERIMENTS
The evidence is insufficient to disclose any criminal responsibility of the defendant in connection with these experiments.
EXTERMINATION OF TUBERCULAR POLES
The basis for the prosecution's case against the defendant in this regard is to be found in a series of letters with reference to the tuberculosis menace in the Reichsgau Wartheland, which had been overrun by the German Reich and settled by its citizens.
During the year 1941 the German Government began a program of extermination of the Jewish population of the eastern occupied territories. On 1 May 1942 Greiser, the German Military Governor of Reichsgau Wartheland, wrote Himmler advising him that "as to the 100,000 Jews in the district, the `special treatment' approved by Himmler was about completed." The letter then continued:
" * * I ask you for permission to rescue the district immediately, after the measures taken against the Jews, from a
