Kurt Plötner

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Kurt Friedrich Plötner (19 October 1905 – 26 February 1984) was a

Soviet prisoners of war in German concentration camps. American intelligence recruited him to work for the United States in 1945. He returned to the medical field as a professor at the University of Freiburg in West Germany after working for the United States and living under an alias
.

Biography

Kurt Friedrich Plötner was born in

SS as a physician in the 1930s, reaching the SS rank of Sturmbannführer
.

Plötner participated in a series of research tasks involving

schizophrenic behavior, as part of the Nazi search for a truth serum that could be employed as an aid in interrogations.[2]

Hired by the Americans, 1945

Plötner's work in the concentration camps came to the attention of

Project MK Ultra.[5]

Resumed civilian life, 1945-1955

Plötner proceeded to live under the name of "Schmitt" in Schleswig-Holstein into the early 1950s.[6]

Despite Plötner's residence in this western German zone, when the French government sought to have Plötner prosecuted in 1946 and appealed to the United States for assistance, the Americans replied that he could not be located, and was probably being shielded by the Soviet Union. He subsequently was able to quietly resume his real identity in 1952, at which time he was hired by the University of Freiburg in West Germany.[7] He became an associate professor in 1954.[6]

See also

References

  1. ISBN 978-3-486-57950-5
    . P. 467. (in German)
  2. ISBN 978-1-85984-139-6
    . P. 51.
  3. ISBN 978-0-335-20072-6
    . P. 33.
  4. ^ Cockburn, Alexander. "The Wide World of Torture". The Nation. 8 November 2001. Retrieved 11 November 2009.
  5. S2CID 235366267
    .
  6. ^ a b Schmid, Hans. "Psychopathen, Psychiater und Psychonauten". Telepolis. 8 August 2009. Retrieved 11 November 2009. (in German)
  7. ^ Klee, Ernst. "Silke Seemann: Die politischen Säuberungen des Lehrkörpers der Freiburger Universität nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges (1945–1957)". Deutsches Ärzteblatt. 27 June 2003. Retrieved 11 November 2009. (in German)
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