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Parent topics

• Human rights [r]: Natural civil and political rights considered universal and applicable to all human beings worldwide. ^[e]
• Informed consent [r]: Agreement, by the person affected or his surrogate, to make a knowledgeable decision consenting to participation in a medical treatment or research trial ^[e]
• Nuremberg Military Tribunals [r]: A set of twelve trials of officials of Nazi Germany, conducted by the United States in its zone of occupation of Germany, following the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) ^[e]
• SS [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • WVHA [r]: The economic and administrative organization of Nazi Germany's SS, whose responsibilities included the actual operation of concentration camps ^[e]
    • Richard Glucks [r]: Add brief definition or description

Subtopics

Basis for charges

• High altitude experiments (Nazi) [r]: A series of Nazi experiments conducted, against the will of the subjects, on concentration camp prisoners, frequently resulting in death or severe injury. They were intended to learn human responses to the cold and oxygen deprivation of high-altitude flight. ^[e]
• Euthanasia Program (Nazi) [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]
  • Action T4 [r]: Secret program in Nazi Germany in which Adolf Hitler's regime killed up to 250,000 people with disabilities. ^[e]

Defendants

• Karl Brandt [r]: Senior medical officer of Nazi Germany, Gruppenfuhrer in the SS and personal physician to Adolf Hitler; executed for war crimes related to the Holocaust, including involuntary medical experiments and the technical aspects of genocide. ^[e]
• Siegfried Handloser [r]: Lieutenant General of Medical Service; Medical Inspector of the Army; Chief of the Medical Services of the Armed Forces of Nazi Germany; defendant in the Medical Case (NMT) sentenced to life imprisonment ^[e]
• Paul Rostock [r]: Chief Surgeon of the Berlin Surgical Clinic, Surgical Adviser to the Army, and Chief of the Office of Medical Science and Research, headed by Karl Brandt; charged in the Medical Case (NMT) ^[e]
• Oskar Schroeder [r]: Lieutenant General of Medical Service in the WWII Luftwaffe and Chief of its Medial Service; sentenced to life imprisonment by the Medical Case (NMT) ^[e]
• Karl Genzken [r]: Gruppenfuehrer in the Waffen SS and chief of its Medical Department; defendant in the Medical Case (NMT) sentenced to life imprisonment ^[e]
• Karl Gebhardt [r]: A Nazi physician and Chief Surgeon of the SS; executed for Holocaust-related war crimes after conviction in the Medical Case of the Nuremberg Military Tribunals ^[e]
• Kurt Blome [r]: Nazi Deputy Reich Health Leader; Plenipotentiary for Cancer Research in the Reich Health Council; acquitted of charges in the Medical Case (NMT) ^[e]
• Rudolf Brandt [r]: Standartenfuhrer (colonel) of the Nazi SS who was personal administrative officer to Heinrich Himmler; executed after conviction for war crimes in the Medical Case of the Nuremberg Military Tribunals ^[e]
• Joachim Mrugowsky [r]: A Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) physician, with the rank of Oberfuehrer; Chief of the SS Hygienic Institute; condemned and executed for war crimes by the Medical Case trial at the Nuremberg Military Tribunals ^[e]
• Helmut Poppendick [r]: SS-Oberfuehrer, chief of the Personal Staff of the Reich Physician SS, Ernst Grawitz ^[e]
• Wolfram Sievers [r]: SS-Standartenfuehrer; nonscientist manager of the Ahenerbe Society, Director of its Institute for Military Scientific Research]] and Deputy Chairman of the Managing Board of Directors of the Reich Research Council; tried in the Medical Case (NMT) and executed ^[e]
• Gerhard Rose [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Siegfried Ruff [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hans Wolfgang Romberg [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hermann Becker-Freyseng [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Georg August Weltz [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Konrad Schaefer [r]: Add brief definition or description}
• Wilhelm Beiglboeck [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Adolf Pokorny [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Fritz Fischer [r]: Add brief definition or description

Not tried

• Ernst Grawitz [r]: Add brief definition or description Chief physician of the SS.
• Sigmund Rascher [r]: Add brief definition or description Conducted high-altitude experiments at Dachau.

Results

• Declaration of Helsinki [r]: Add brief definition or description
• World Medical Association [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Nuremberg Code [r]: Add brief definition or description