Nazi epidemic jaundice experiments

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Nazi epidemic jaundice experiments were conducted between June 1943 and January 1945, for the benefit of the German armed forces to investigate causes of and inoculations against "epidemic jaundice". In modern terminology, epidemic jaundice is probably hepatitis A.[1] nonconsensual experiments were conducted on Polish prisoners at Sachsenhausen and Natzweiler Concentration Camps, to investigate the causes of epidemic jaundice and vaccines against it

In the Medical Case (NMT), charged were Hermann Becker-Freyseng, Karl Brandt, Rudolf Brandt, Karl Gebhardt, Siegfried Handloser, Joachim Mrugowsky, Helmut Poppendick, Gerhardt Rose, Paul Rostock, Oskar Schroeder, and Wolfram Sievers.

Charges against Becker-Freyseng, Rose, and Sievers were withdrawn. Rudolf Brandt, Gebhardt, Handloser, Mrugowsky, Poppendick, Rostock, and Schroeder were acquitted; Karl Brandt was convicted.

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  1. ↑ Erwin Kuntz, Hans-Dieter Kuntz (2008), Hepatology: Textbook and Atlas (Third ed.), pp. 421-422
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