Nuremberg Medical Trial
Nuremberg Medical Trial Following World War II, the American Military Tribunal indicted twenty-three Nazi doctors and administrators for performing agonizing and often fatal experiments on helpless…
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Nuremberg Medical Trial
Following World War II, the American Military Tribunal indicted twenty-three Nazi doctors and administrators for performing agonizing and often fatal experiments on helpless concentration camp inmates. Who were their victims, and what was their fate? Using primarily court records, this book attempts to answer the following salient questions: What sort of medical experiments did the Nazi doctors perform?
What legal charges were brought against the doctors, and what was their defense? What, if any, were the medical results? Who were the witnesses?
Did the defendants try to reconcile their brutal acts with the Hippocratic Code never to do harm, or were they devoid of any medical ethics? Did they constitute dishonorable exceptions to a principled German medical profession, or were they symptomatic of a more widespread disregard for traditional medical ethics? In trying to answer these