Bruno Weber (doctor)

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. He was made Obersturmfuehrer d.res:20.4.43 SS-Sanitatsamt.SS Nr: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.

Before the start of World War II, Weber (according to the SS doctor Hans Münch) earned his doctorate in medicine in the United States on a scholarship. In 1942 the Wehrmacht transferred him to the Waffen SS, where he reached the rank of Obersturmführer in January 1943, and was promoted to Hauptsturmführer in November 1944.

By May 1943, Weber was Head of the Sanitary-bacteriological investigation authority of the Waffen-SS and Police South-East in the central warehouse Rajsko of Auschwitz I. At the instigation of the SS garrison doctor Eduard Wirth, this institute was used for the containment of typhoid and other epidemics. The epidemics at Auschwitz also threatened the camp staff of the SS. The Sanitary-Bacteriological investigation authority of the Waffen SS and Police South East had the following objectives:

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