Walter Blume

German Nazi SS-Standartenführer

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 also responsible for the deportation of over 46,000 Greek Jews to Auschwitz.

Although imprisoned in 1945 and sentenced to death for war crimes in 1948, his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1951 by the "Peck Panel" and he was released in 1955.