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Parent topics

• Nazi race and biological ideology [r]: The policies of Nazi Germany, based on the views of Adolf Hitler, which emphasized encouraging the breeding of what he considered to be a superior race and preventing the breeding, or actively killing, what he considered subhuman ^[e]
  • Medical Case (NMT) [r]: As part of the Nuremberg Military Tribunals, the trial of Nazi personnel for participating in involuntary medical experiments and the medical support of genocide ^[e]
• Medical ethics [r]: The study of moral values as they apply to medicine. ^[e]
• Holocaust [r]: Nazi Germany's systematic economic exploitation, followed by killing, of European Jews and others deemed racial and ideological enemies ^[e]
  • Nazi euthanasia program [r]: A secret program of Nazi Germany, in which hundreds of thousands of persons were killed, not for medical reasons but because they were deemed, by Nazi ideology, "life unworthy of life" ^[e]
• War crime [r]: Acts that violate the laws of war as they applied in the time and place of commission, or that were deemed violations of law, possibly ex post facto, as determined by a competent tribunal ^[e]

Subtopics

Experiments

Military focus

• Nazi freezing experiments [r]: A program of nonconsensual Nazi medical experiments, conducted primarily for the Luftwaffe, between August 1942 - May 1943, to investigate treatments for persons who had been severely chilled, using prisoners at the Dachau Concentration Camp; the experimenters were tried in the Medical Case (NMT) ^[e]
• Nazi high altitude experiments [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Nazi malaria experiments [r]: Nonconsensual Nazi experiments, conducted between February 1942 at April 1945 at [Dachau Concentration Camp]]; purpose was to test immunization for and treatment of malaria; 9 defendants were charged in the Medical Case (NMT) ^[e]
• Nazi mustard gas experiments [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Nazi sulfanilamide experiments [r]: A set of Nazi medical experiments in which doctors inflicted and deliberately infected wounds in unwilling prisoners, and then assessed sulfanilamide and other drug treatments for the benefit of the German military ^[e]
• Nazi regeneration and transplantation [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Nazi seawater experiments [r]: Nonconsensual Nazi medical experiments (July - September 1944), performed for the Luftwaffe and navy to test methods of making seawater drinkable; experiments were conducted at [Dachau Concentration Camp]] ^[e]
• Nazi epidemic jaundice experiments [r]: Conducted between June 1943 and January 1945, for the benefit of the German armed forces to investigate causes of and inoculations against "epidemic jaundice"; nonconsensual experiments were conducted on Polish prisoners at Sachsenhausen and Natzweiler Concentration Camps, to investigate the causes of epidemic jaundice and vaccines against it ^[e]
• Nazi typhus and other vaccine experiments [r]: Conducted for the benefit of the German armed forces to test the effectiveness of vaccines against typhus, smallpox, cholera, and other diseases at Buchenwald Concentration Camp and Natzweiler Concentration Camp (December 1941 - February 1945} ^[e]
• Nazi poison experiments [r]: Conducted (December 1943-October 1944) at [Buchenwald Concentration Camp]] (food) and Sachsenhausen (bullets), to investigate the effect of various poisons, including poison in food and poisoned bullets. ^[e]
• Nazi incendiary bomb experiments [r]: At Buchenwald Concentration Camp (November 1943 - January 1944), Nazi medical experiments were onducted to test pharmaceutical treatments for phosphorus burns; nonconsenting prisoners were burned by incendiary bombs. ^[e]

Racial-biological orientation

• Nazi sterilization experiments [r]: In addition to the surgical methods of the earlier parts of the Nazi sterilization program, these experiments, between March 1941 and January 1945, explored unproven techniques; they were ordered to develop methods of rapid, large scale sterilization ^[e]
• Nazi skeleton collection [r]: Conducted to complete a skeleton collection for an anatomical research project for Nazi race and biological ideology, under August Hirt at the Reich University of Strasbourg; one hundred twelve Jews at [Auschwitz Concentration Camp]] were killed for the purpose. ^[e]

Persons tried in NMT

Physicians and scientists

• Hermann Becker-Freyseng [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Wilhelm Beiglboeck [r]: Consulting physician to the WWII Luftwaffe and defendant in the Medical Case (NMT) ^[e]
• Kurt Blome [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Karl Brandt [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Fritz Fischer [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Karl Gebhardt [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Karl Genzken [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Waldemar Hoven [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Siegfried Handloser [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Joachim Mrugowsky [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Herta Oberheuser [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Helmut Poppendick [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Gerhardt Rose [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Siegfried Ruff [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hans Wolfgang Romberg [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Konrad Schaefer [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Oskar Schroeder [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Georg August Weltz [r]: Add brief definition or description

Nonscientists

• Viktor Brack [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Rudolf Brandt [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Wolfram Sievers [r]: Add brief definition or description

Others implicated

• Philip Bouhler [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Carl Clauberg [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Leonardo Conti [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Max de Crinis [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Erwin Ding-Schuler [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ernst Grawitz [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Josef Mengele [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Sigmund Rascher [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Franz Stangl [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Albert Widmann [r]: Add brief definition or description

Sites of experiments

• Auschwitz Concentration Camp [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Buchenwald Concentration Camp [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Dachau Concentration Camp [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Natzweiler Concentration Camp [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ravensbrueck Concentration Camp [r]: Add brief definition or description

Resistance

• Karl Bonhoeffer [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

• Nuremberg Code [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Declaration of Helsinki [r]: Add brief definition or description
• U.S. intelligence involvement with World War II Japanese war criminals [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Shiro Ishii [r]: Add brief definition or description

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• Nazi freezing experiments [r]: A program of nonconsensual Nazi medical experiments, conducted primarily for the Luftwaffe, between August 1942 - May 1943, to investigate treatments for persons who had been severely chilled, using prisoners at the Dachau Concentration Camp; the experimenters were tried in the Medical Case (NMT) ^[e]
• Nuremberg Military Tribunals [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Nazi seawater experiments [r]: Nonconsensual Nazi medical experiments (July - September 1944), performed for the Luftwaffe and navy to test methods of making seawater drinkable; experiments were conducted at [Dachau Concentration Camp]] ^[e]
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