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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]
  • Law for the Protection of Hereditary Health [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Nazi medical experiments [r]: Part of Holocaust was a program of nonconsensual medical experiments, primarily conducted at concentration camps, for which many of those conducted them were tried for war crimes ^[e]

Subtopics

• 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]

Indicted

• 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]
  • Viktor Brack [r]: SS-Oberfuehrer; Chief Administrative Officer of the Chancellery of the Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler's personal office (as distinct from the Nazi Party Chancellery headed by Martin Bormann; key manager of the Nazi euthanasia program; executed by sentence of the Medical Case (NMT) tribunal ^[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]
  • 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]
  • 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]
  • Adolf Pokorny [r]: German physician, specialist in skin and venereal diseases, tried in Medical Case (NMT) ^[e]
  • Helmut Poppendick [r]: SS-Oberfuehrer, chief of the Personal Staff of the Reich Physician SS, Ernst Grawitz ^[e]

Not indicted

• Karl Bonhoeffer [r]: (1868–1948) German psychiatrist and neurologist; major early contributor to the classification of psychoses, retired 1937 to be replaced at Charité Hospital by Max de Crinis; refused to participate in Nazi sterilization experiments; father of Dietrich Bonhoeffer ^[e]
• Carl Clauberg [r]: (1898-1957) Nazi gynecologist involved, with Horst Schumann, in sterilization experiments; Heinrich Himmler was his patron; imprisoned by the Soviets 1945-1955; indicted by West Germany but died of a heart attack before trial ^[e]
• Max de Crinis [r]: German academic psychiatrist who took part in Nazi counterespionage operations and a possibly limited role in the Nazi euthanasia program ^[e]

Other related topics

• X-ray [r]: An ionizing type of electromagnetic radiation whose absorption or diffraction often used for structural investigations of matter. ^[e]