Walter Blume (23 July 1906 – 13 November 1974) was a mid-ranking SS commander and leader of Sonderkommando 7a, part of the extermination commando group Einsatzgruppe B.
The unit perpetrated the killings of thousands of Jews in Belarus and Russia.
Blume was responsible for the deportation of over 46,000 Greek Jews to Auschwitz.
Author: US Army photographers on behalf of the OCCWC Source: James L. Taylor: From Weimar to Nuremberg (M.A. Thesis at Ohio University, 2006) License: PD US Army