Beals Adopts Medical Tribunal Rules
Beals presided when Military Tribunal I formally adopted procedural rules governing the Medical Case before the doctors' trial opened.
Doctors Trial
51 historical records assigned to this proceeding.
Crawford Joins Medical Tribunal Rules Meeting
Crawford participated in the pre-trial meeting at which Military Tribunal I settled the procedural framework for the forthcoming prosecution of medical defendants.
Sebring Signs Medical Tribunal Procedure Rules
Sebring joined the tribunal in approving rules that established how motions, evidence and courtroom procedure would be handled in the Medical Case.
Swearingen Serves as Alternate at Medical Tribunal Rules Session
Swearingen attended as alternate judge when the Medical Tribunal approved its rules and prepared the court for the first Subsequent Nuremberg proceeding.
Beals Opens Doctors Trial as Presiding Judge
Beals opened the Medical Case and directed the first trial session against physicians and officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Doctors Trial Opens
Taylor opened the prosecution of physicians and administrators in the first Subsequent Nuremberg Proceeding.
Medical Case Tests Responsibility for Human Experimentation
The first subsequent proceeding examines physicians and administrators accused of criminal medical experiments and other abuses committed under state authority.
Doctors Trial High-Altitude Evidence Presented
The prosecution introduces evidence on Dachau high-altitude experiments and the use of concentration-camp prisoners in lethal aviation research.
Doctors Trial Freezing Experiment Evidence Presented
The prosecution presents evidence concerning freezing experiments at Dachau and the suffering imposed on prisoners used as human test subjects.
Doctors Trial Malaria Experiment Evidence Presented
The prosecution turns to malaria experiments conducted on prisoners and the medical responsibility of officials connected with the programme.
Doctors Trial Seawater Experiment Evidence Presented
Evidence is introduced about seawater experiments intended to test survival methods while prisoners endured dangerous deprivation.
Doctors Trial Sterilization Evidence Presented
The prosecution presents the programme of sterilization experiments designed to develop methods for suppressing reproduction among targeted populations.
Doctors Trial Skeleton Collection Evidence Presented
The court hears evidence about the plan to murder selected Jewish prisoners for an anatomical skeleton collection.
Doctors Trial Sulfanilamide Experiment Evidence Presented
The prosecution details wound and drug experiments in which prisoners were deliberately injured to test sulfanilamide treatment.
Doctors Trial Typhus Vaccine Evidence Presented
The prosecution presents evidence on typhus and vaccine experiments carried out on concentration-camp prisoners under coercive conditions.
Doctors Trial Biological Warfare Evidence Presented
The prosecution examines alleged biological-warfare research and the involvement of medical officials in experimentation on prisoners.
Doctors Trial Euthanasia Evidence Presented
Evidence is presented on the Nazi euthanasia programme and the killing of patients and other persons classified as unfit to live.
Karl Brandt Testifies in Doctors Trial
Karl Brandt took the stand in his own defence and addressed his authority in the German medical system, euthanasia policy and allegations concerning human experimentation.
Handloser Testifies on Military Medical Command
Handloser testified about the structure of the armed-forces medical service and disputed that his senior position gave him operational control over every experimental programme.
Rostock Testifies on Medical Research Administration
Rostock described his work in medical research administration and challenged the prosecution's claim that his office coordinated criminal experiments on concentration-camp prisoners.
Schroeder Testifies on Luftwaffe Medical Service
Schroeder testified about Luftwaffe medical responsibilities, research requests and his knowledge of experiments involving seawater, aviation medicine and infectious disease.
Genzken Testifies on Waffen SS Medical Authority
Genzken explained the organization of Waffen-SS medical services and responded to allegations linking his command position with experiments performed on prisoners.
Gebhardt Testifies on Ravensbrueck Experiments
Gebhardt defended the surgical experiments conducted at Ravensbrueck and described the medical reasoning he claimed lay behind wound-treatment and bone-transplant procedures.
Fischer Testifies on Experimental Surgery
Fischer testified about his work as Gebhardt's assistant and described his participation in surgical experiments carried out on women imprisoned at Ravensbrueck.
Kosmehl Testifies before Blome Defence
Kosmehl testified about medical research and administrative matters before Blome's own testimony began, providing background for the biological-warfare allegations.
Blome Testifies on Biological Warfare Research
Blome gave evidence about biological-warfare research, plague and vaccine work, while denying that he personally conducted criminal experiments on concentration-camp inmates.
Rudolf Brandt Testifies on Himmler Correspondence
Rudolf Brandt described his administrative work for Heinrich Himmler and attempted to distinguish clerical transmission of orders from responsibility for the medical programmes discussed in correspondence.
Mrugowsky Testifies on SS Hygiene Institute
Mrugowsky testified about the Waffen-SS Hygiene Institute, vaccine research and his relationship to typhus, poison and other experiments examined by the prosecution.
Oberheuser Testifies on Ravensbrueck Medical Work
Oberheuser described her duties at Ravensbrueck and answered evidence concerning treatment of prisoners subjected to wound, drug and surgical experiments.
Poppendick Testifies on SS Medical Administration
Poppendick testified about SS medical administration and denied exercising the degree of control over experimental programmes alleged by the prosecution.
Sievers Testifies on Ahnenerbe Medical Projects
Sievers gave evidence about Ahnenerbe research, its links with SS medical projects and the administrative chain behind experiments and the Jewish skeleton collection.
Block Testifies for Gerhard Rose Defence
Block testified about infectious-disease research and professional circumstances relevant to Gerhard Rose's defence against charges connected with typhus and malaria experimentation.
Hoering Testifies on Rose Medical Research
Hoering discussed scientific work associated with Rose and addressed medical research practices that the defence argued were distinct from coercive camp experimentation.
Rose Testifies on Typhus and Malaria Research
Rose testified about infectious-disease research and defended his actions concerning typhus and malaria work that prosecutors connected with experimentation on prisoners.
Ruff Testifies on High Altitude Research
Ruff described aviation-medicine research and sought to separate his scientific work from the lethal high-altitude experiments conducted on prisoners at Dachau.
Romberg Testifies on Dachau Aviation Experiments
Romberg testified about his participation in aviation experiments and explained the role he claimed to have played during high-altitude research at Dachau.
Weltz Testifies on Aviation Medicine Institute
Weltz described the Institute for Aviation Medicine and denied responsibility for criminal experimentation carried out outside the research activities he supervised.
Pfannmueller Testifies on Euthanasia Programme
Pfannmueller testified about the euthanasia programme and institutional medical practices, providing evidence during the defence phase of Viktor Brack's case.
Brack Testifies on Euthanasia and Sterilization
Brack testified about his role in the Chancellery, the euthanasia programme and proposals for mass sterilization, while disputing aspects of the prosecution's account.
Becker-Freyseng Testifies on Seawater Research
Becker-Freyseng described Luftwaffe research into making seawater drinkable and answered allegations concerning the design and approval of experiments at Dachau.
Schaefer Testifies on Seawater Treatment Methods
Schaefer explained competing methods for treating seawater and denied that his scientific work made him responsible for coercive testing performed on prisoners.
Vollhardt Testifies in Schaefer Defence
Vollhardt testified during Schaefer's defence about scientific work on seawater treatment and the research context in which the competing methods were evaluated.
Dorn Testifies before Beiglboeck Defence
Dorn gave evidence concerning medical research and procedures relevant to the seawater experiments before Beiglboeck's own extended testimony began.
Beiglboeck Testifies on Dachau Seawater Experiments
Beiglboeck defended his conduct during the Dachau seawater experiments and addressed the treatment, observation and condition of the prisoners used as test subjects.
Ivy Gives Expert Testimony on Human Experimentation
Ivy presented expert evidence on accepted medical research standards, voluntary consent and the ethical distinctions between legitimate experimentation and coercive testing on prisoners.
Tschofenig Testifies on Seawater Experiments
Tschofenig gave prosecution testimony concerning the Dachau seawater experiments and described conditions surrounding the prisoners who were used as experimental subjects.
Hoven Testifies on Buchenwald Medical Activity
Hoven testified about his duties at Buchenwald and answered charges involving typhus experiments, killings by injection and participation in the euthanasia programme.
Pokorny Testifies on Sterilization Proposal
Pokorny defended the memorandum in which he discussed a possible sterilization method and argued that he had not taken part in experiments on prisoners.
Doctors Trial Verdict
The tribunal found Brandt guilty as it delivered the Doctors Trial verdicts.
Nuremberg Code
The Doctors Trial judgment set out ten principles for permissible human experimentation, later known as the Nuremberg Code.
Doctors Trial Sentence
Brandt received a death sentence after conviction in the Doctors Trial.