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.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nuremberg Military Tribunal
crimes against humanity trial
war crimes trial
alsoKnownAs Medical Case
alternateJudge Victor C. Swearingen
charge crimes against humanity
membership in a criminal organization
war crimes
concernedWith Jewish skeleton collection
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
Bruno Beger
Franz Schilling
Gerhard Rose
Helmut Poppendick
Hermann Becker-Freyseng
Herta Oberheuser
Joachim Mrugowsky
Karl Brandt
Karl Gebhardt
Karl Genzken
Karl Wimmer
Kurt Blome
Kurt Plötner
Oskar Schröder
Paul Rostock
Rudolf Brandt
Siegfried Ruff
Viktor Brack
Wilhelm Beiglböck
Wolfram Sievers
endDate 1947-08-20
heldAt Palace of Justice, Nuremberg
historicalPeriod post–World War II
judge Harold L. Sebring
Johnson T. Crawford
languageOfProceedings English
German
legalBasis Allied Control Council Law No. 10
location American Zone of Occupied Germany
surface form: American Zone of Occupation in Germany

Nuremberg
mainDefendant Karl Brandt
notableOutcome establishment of principles of informed consent in human experimentation
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
surface form: Subsequent Nuremberg Trials
presidingJudge Walter B. Beals
prosecutor Telford Taylor
resultedIn formulation of the Nuremberg Code
startDate 1946-12-09
subjectOf Nuremberg Code

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IG Farben Trial precededBy Doctors' Trial
NMT Case X court Doctors' Trial
this entity surface form: Military Tribunal III-A
T4 program alsoKnownAs Doctors' Trial
this entity surface form: T4 Euthanasia Program
U.S. Nuremberg Military Tribunal I alsoKnownAs Doctors' Trial
this entity surface form: Doctors' Trial tribunal
Victor C. Swearingen participatedIn Doctors' Trial
Joachim Mrugowsky participantIn Doctors' Trial
Herta Oberheuser convictedBy Doctors' Trial
Herta Oberheuser participantIn Doctors' Trial
Gerhard Rose wasTriedAt Doctors' Trial
Gerhard Rose defendantIn Doctors' Trial
Nuremberg Code createdInContextOf Doctors' Trial
Oskar Schröder defendantIn Doctors' Trial
Oskar Schröder defendantIn Doctors' Trial
this entity surface form: Nuremberg Medical Case
Adolf Pokorny wasTriedAt Doctors' Trial
Franz Schilling subjectOf Doctors' Trial
Franz Schilling participantIn Doctors' Trial
Medical Case alsoKnownAs Doctors' Trial
Karl Brandt participantIn Doctors' Trial
Kurt Blome triedAt Doctors' Trial
Viktor Brack participantIn Doctors' Trial
Rudolf Brandt participantIn Doctors' Trial
Rudolf Brandt subjectOf Doctors' Trial
Karl Gebhardt participantIn Doctors' Trial
Nuremberg IG Farben trial precededBy Doctors' Trial
Wolfram Sievers trial Doctors' Trial