Walter Blume (Q68656)

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Einsatzgruppen SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator (1906-1974)
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Walter Blume
Einsatzgruppen SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator (1906-1974)

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    Walter Blume (German)
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    Testifying at Nuremberg, Colonel Blume said he had killed 200 civilians; the judge estimated 1,000. In Lithuania, Colonel Blume ordered the destruction of the ghetto at Vilnius, a celebrated center of Jewish learning and life.Colonel Blume's 1948 death sentence was commuted in 1951 to 25 years and was reduced further by German judges in 1955. (English)
    Walter Blume (SS officer)
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