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Parent topics

• 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]
• The Holocaust [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Nazi euthanasia programs [r]: Add brief definition or description

Subtopics

Experiments

• 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]
• 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]: 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]

Persons tried in NMT

• Hermann Becker-Freyseng [r]: Staff physician of the WWII Luftwaffe, Chief of Department for Aviation Medicine of the Chief of Medical Services; charged in the Medical Case (NMT) ^[e]
• Wilhelm Beiglboeck [r]: Consulting physician to the WWII Luftwaffe and defendant in the Medical Case (NMT) ^[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]
• 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]
• 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]
• Fritz Fischer [r]: SS-Sturmbannfueher in the Waffen SS; Assistant Physician to Karl Gebhardt at the Hohenychen Hospital; defendant in the Medical Case (NMT) ^[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]
• 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]
• Waldemar Hoven [r]: SS-Hauptsturmfueher and camp physician at Buchenwald Concentration Camp; executed for war crimes as a result of the Medical Case (NMT) ^[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]
• 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]
• Herta Oberheuser [r]: Physician at the Ravensbrueck Concentration Camp and assistant to Karl Gebhardt in the Hohelychen Hospital; convicted of war crimes in the Medical Case (NMT) ^[e]
• Helmut Poppendick [r]: SS-Oberfuehrer, chief of the Personal Staff of the Reich Physician SS, Ernst Grawitz ^[e]
• Gerhardt Rose [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Siegfied 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
• Wolfram Sievers [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Georg August Weltz [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other experimenters

• Leonardo Conti [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Erwin Ding-Schuler [r]: Add brief definition or description SS-[[[Nazi SS and military ranks|Surmbannfuehrer]] and medical officer at Buchenwald Concentration Camp; both helped prisoners and committed atrocities; committed suicide in September 1945
• Ernst Grawitz [r]: Add brief definition or description SS-[[[Nazi SS and military ranks|Obergruppenfuehrer]] and Chief Medical Officer of the SS; suggested the use of gas chambers for The Holocaust and supervised Nazi medical experiments; committed suicide at the war's end
• Josef Mengele [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Sigmund Rascher [r]: Add brief definition or description SS physician involved in Nazi medical experiments; tried and executed by the SS for violations of its rules, involving hidden adoption of children and a falsified marriage

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
• Natweiler Concentration Camp [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ravensbrueck Cocentration Camp [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