Karl Brandt

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Karl Brandt was a physician and SS officer in Nazi Germany, executed for his role in the Holocaust, including involuntary medical experiments and the technical aspects of genocide.

With the rank of Gruppenfuhrer in the SS, he was personal physician to Adolf Hitler (Reicharzt), Reich Commissioner for Health and Sanitation (Reichskommissar fuer Sanitaets- und Gesundheitswesen) and member of the Reich Research Council (Reichsforschungsrat).

Charges at the Nuremberg Military Tribunals

In the medical case (NMT), Brandt was charged with:[1]

References

  1. , The Medical Case of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings, Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10. October 1946–April 1949.