Doctors' Trial
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The Doctors' Trial was a post–World War II Nuremberg military tribunal in which Nazi physicians and medical administrators were prosecuted for war crimes and crimes against humanity, particularly for inhumane medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Military Tribunal III-A | 1 |
Statements (73)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nuremberg Military Tribunal
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crimes against humanity trial ⓘ war crimes trial ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Medical Case ⓘ |
| alternateJudge | Victor C. Swearingen ⓘ |
| charge |
crimes against humanity
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membership in a criminal organization ⓘ war crimes ⓘ |
| concernedWith |
Jewish skeleton collection
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bone, muscle, and nerve regeneration experiments ⓘ euthanasia killings ⓘ experiments on concentration camp prisoners ⓘ freezing experiments ⓘ high-altitude experiments ⓘ inhumane medical experiments ⓘ malaria experiments ⓘ mustard gas experiments ⓘ sea-water experiments ⓘ sterilization experiments ⓘ sulfonamide experiments ⓘ typhus experiments ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| court | U.S. Nuremberg Military Tribunal I ⓘ |
| criminalOrganizationMentioned | SS ⓘ |
| defendant |
Adolf Pokorny
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Bruno Beger ⓘ Franz Schilling ⓘ Gerhard Rose ⓘ Helmut Poppendick NERFINISHED ⓘ Hermann Becker-Freyseng NERFINISHED ⓘ Herta Oberheuser ⓘ Joachim Mrugowsky ⓘ Karl Brandt ⓘ Karl Gebhardt ⓘ Karl Genzken NERFINISHED ⓘ Karl Wimmer NERFINISHED ⓘ Kurt Blome ⓘ Kurt Plötner NERFINISHED ⓘ Oskar Schröder ⓘ Paul Rostock NERFINISHED ⓘ Rudolf Brandt ⓘ Siegfried Ruff NERFINISHED ⓘ Viktor Brack ⓘ Wilhelm Beiglböck NERFINISHED ⓘ Wolfram Sievers ⓘ |
| endDate | 1947-08-20 ⓘ |
| heldAt | Palace of Justice, Nuremberg ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | post–World War II ⓘ |
| judge |
Harold L. Sebring
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Johnson T. Crawford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfProceedings |
English
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German ⓘ |
| legalBasis | Allied Control Council Law No. 10 ⓘ |
| location |
American Zone of Occupied Germany
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surface form:
American Zone of Occupation in Germany
Nuremberg ⓘ |
| mainDefendant | Karl Brandt ⓘ |
| notableOutcome |
establishment of principles of informed consent in human experimentation
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international attention to Nazi medical crimes ⓘ |
| numberOfAcquittedDefendants | 7 ⓘ |
| numberOfConvictedDefendants | 16 ⓘ |
| numberOfDeathSentences | 7 ⓘ |
| numberOfDefendants | 23 ⓘ |
| numberOfIndictedDefendants | 23 ⓘ |
| numberOfLifeSentences | 5 ⓘ |
| numberOfOtherPrisonSentences | 4 ⓘ |
| officialName | United States of America v. Karl Brandt et al. ⓘ |
| organizedBy | Office of Chief of Counsel for War Crimes ⓘ |
| partOf |
Nuremberg trials
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surface form:
Subsequent Nuremberg Trials
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| presidingJudge | Walter B. Beals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| prosecutor | Telford Taylor ⓘ |
| resultedIn | formulation of the Nuremberg Code ⓘ |
| startDate | 1946-12-09 ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Nuremberg Code ⓘ |
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this entity surface form:
Military Tribunal III-A