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Karl Brandt
war crimes
United States
Nuremberg
Germany
World War II
International Military Tribunal
Palace of Justice
Subsequent Nuremberg Trials
Nazi human experimentation
mass murder under the the guise of euthanasia
Josef Mengele
Walter B. Beals
Washington
Harold L. Sebring
Florida
Johnson T. Crawford
Oklahoma
Victor C. Swearingen
Attorney General
Telford Taylor
James M. McHaney
indictment
crimes against humanity
Euthanasia Program
concentration camp
SS
Hermann Becker-Freyseng
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hermann_Becker-Freyseng.jpg
Luftwaffe
commuted
Wilhelm Beiglböck
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wilhelm_Beiglboeck_KZ-Arzt.jpg
Kurt Blome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kurt_Blome_KZ-Arzt.jpg
acquitted
Viktor Brack
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Viktor_Brack_N%C3%BCrnberg_2.jpg
Waffen SS
NSDAP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Karl_Brandt_SS-Arzt.jpg
Reichsforschungsrat
Rudolf Brandt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rudolf_Brandt_(SS-Mitglied).jpg
Himmler
Fritz Fischer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fritz_Fischer_KZ-Arzt.jpg
Karl Gebhardt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Karl_Gebhardt,_SS-Arzt.jpg
Karl Genzken
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Karl_August_Genzken_KZ-Arzt.jpg
Siegfried Handloser
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Siegfried_Handloser_NS-Arzt.jpg
Waldemar Hoven
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Waldem_Hoven.jpg
Buchenwald concentration camp
Joachim Mrugowsky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Joachim_Mrugoswski_SS-Arzt.jpg
Herta Oberheuser
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Herta_Oberheuser.jpg
Ravensbrück concentration camp
Adolf Pokorny
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Adolf_Pokorny.jpg
Helmut Poppendick
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Helmut_Poppendick.jpg
Hans Wolfgang Romberg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wolfgang_Romberg.jpg
Gerhard Rose
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gerh_Rose.jpg
Paul Rostock
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Rostock_(NS-Mediziner).jpg
Siegfried Ruff
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Siegfr_Ruff.jpg
[1]
Konrad Schäfer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Konrad_Schaefer.jpg
Oskar Schröder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oskar_Schroeder.jpg
Wolfram Sievers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wolfram_Sievers.jpg
Ahnenerbe
Institute for Military Scientific Research
Reich Research Council
Georg August Weltz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Georg_Weltz.jpg
hanged
Landsberg prison
Bavaria
Frankfurt am Main
Königstein im Taunus
German
Ernst Schäfer
Tibet
SS
Jews
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_135-KA-10-063,_Tibetexpediton,_Expeditionsteilnehmer.jpg
Heidelberg
World War I
University of Jena
Hans F. K. Günther
anthropology
ethnology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_135-S-13-11-15,_Tibetexpedition,_Regent_von_Tibet_mit_Beger.jpg
Hawaii
August Hirt
Reichsuniversität Straßburg
Hans Endres
Hans Fleischhacker
Heinrich Rübel
Rudolf Trojan
Jewish skeleton collection
Ludwigshafen
physician
aviation medicine
Doctor's Trial
University of Berlin
Hans-Georg Clamman
pure oxygen
Hubertus Strughold
Ulrich Luft
Otto Gauer
Erich Opitz
Nazi Party
Dachau concentration camp
Hans-Wolfgang Romberg
Heinrich Himmler
salt water
liver biopsy
anaesthetic
war crimes
Harry George Armstrong
space medicine
space race
Operation Paperclip
Multiple sclerosis
Hochneukirchen
Lower Austria
Buxtehude
Lower Saxony
Conviction(s)
Medical doctor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wilhelm_Beiglboeck.jpg
Doctors' Trial
Austria
internist
SA
Obersturmbannführer
medical tests
seawater
Bielefeld
Westphalia
Nazi
Reich
Reich Research Council
Counter Intelligence Corps
Munich
Kransberg Castle
Frankfurt
Operation Alsos
Italian
bacteriological warfare
cancer
plague
euthanasia
experiments on humans
Sarin
Auschwitz
Eduard May
Posen
Walter Schreiber
germ warfare
Chemical Corps
chemical warfare
French
Erich Traub
Aachen
Landsberg am Lech
Nazi
Euthanasia
Action T4
extermination camps
Odilo Globocnik
Final Solution
edit
Chancellery
Führer
Berlin
Oberführer
August Becker
X-rays
Himmler
Bouhler
Auschwitz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Viktor_Brack.jpg
Birkenau
sterilization
Nuremberg
German Nazi
war criminal
Gruppenführer
Allgemeine-SS
Brigadeführer
Waffen-SS
Nazi euthanasia program
Adolf Hitler
Werner Heyde
Mulhouse
German
Alsace-Lorraine
Haut-Rhin
France
citation needed
Untersturmführer
Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring
abortions
Aryan
T-4 Euthanasia Program
Philipp Bouhler
Gestapo
Karl Dönitz
Berchtesgaden
Berghof
Eva Braun
Albert Speer
Margarete Speer
Theodor Morell
Martin Bormann
Heinrich Hoffmann
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Karl-Brandt.jpg
Malaria
LOST Gas
Sulfanilamide
Jaundice
Typhus
Robert Servatius
Landsberg Prison
life
Ingelheim
medical doctor
Nazi regime
medical experiments
medicine
Bonn
Leipzig
Hamburg
Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler
Böhringer
Haag
surgical experiments
Ravensbrück
sanatorium
Uckermark
tuberculosis
orthopedic
Reinhard Heydrich
assassination
Jozef Gab?ík
Jan Kubiš
Allgemeine SS
German Red Cross
Fritz Suhren
[3]
skull
abdomen
anesthesia
shock
sepsis
Soviets
Armies
Joseph Goebbels
Vorbunker
Führerbunker
defence of Berlin
[4]
Red Cross
U.S.
military tribunal
Preetz
Holstein
concentration camps
human experiments
typhus
smallpox
cholera
Buchenwald
Natzweiler
Nuremberg Trials
Konstanz
First World War
medical experiments conducted on concentration camp prisoners
Freiburg
Hauptsturmführer
[1]
useless eaters
Ilse Koch
Nuremberg Trials
Rathenow
Brandenburg
Doctors Trial
general practitioner
Halle
National Socialist German Students' League
University of Halle
edit
human experimentation
Sachsenhausen concentration camp
Western Europe
Cologne
Linz am Rhein
gruesome medical experiments
sulfanilamide
Polish
political prisoners
evipan
Nuremberg Medical Trial
Stocksee
Vienna
dermatologist
second lieutenant
Komotau
sexually transmitted diseases
compulsory sterilization
[1]
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology
Arthur Gutt
Ernst-Robert Grawitz
medical experiments done on concentration camp prisoners
Obernkirchen
tropical medicine
Gda?sk
Poland
University of Breslau
Heidelberg University
China
brigadier general
experiments on the prisoners
malaria
official
surgeon
professor
Third Reich
Karl Brandt
Kranz/Meseritz
Greater Poland
Greifswald
Jena
Bergmannsheil Hospital
Bochum
National Socialist German Workers Party
National Socialist German Physicians Association
human experiments
concentration camp
Possenhofen
Bayreuth
Hildesheim
Landsberg
Protestant
baroque music
Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund
Bündische Jugend
Artaman League
back-to-the-land movement
[1]
edit
Externsteine
Teutoburger Wald
112 Jewish prisoners were selected and killed
[2]
edit
William L. Shirer
[3]
[4]
[5]
experiments on large numbers of prisoners
Nazi German regime
concentration camps
the Holocaust
coerced
informed consent
disfigurement
disability
medical torture
Dr. Eduard Wirths
Dr. Aribert Heim
Mauthausen
Carl Vaernet
cure
Nuremberg Code
medical ethics
University of Munich
philosophy
paleontology
fascism
genetic
barracks
conjoined twins
Ravensbrück
bone
muscle
nerve
regeneration
Baranowicze
SD Security Service
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dachau_cold_water_immersion.jpg
Ernst Holzlöhner
Sigmund Rascher
hypothermia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation#cite_note-Bogod-11
freezing
Eastern Front
Dachau
Reichsführer-SS
mosquitoes
mucous glands
Sachsenhausen
mustard gas
vesicants
Lewisite
chemical burns
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Children_of_Bullinhuser_Damm.jpg
Bullenhuser Damm
axillary lymph nodes
Neuengamme
cover-up
POWs
British forces
sulfonamide
[17]
bacteria
Streptococcus
Clostridium perfringens
gas gangrene
Clostridium tetani
tetanus
sea water
Roma
Dr. Hans Eppinger
[13]
sterilization
Dr. Carl Clauberg
X-ray
surgery
drugs
iodine
silver nitrate
radiation
radiation burns
Buchenwald
autopsies
phosphorus
incendiary bombs
eject
low-pressure chamber
vivisections
post mortem
Albert Neisser
Albert Moll
Leo Alexander
Andrew Conway Ivy
medical law
anthropological
Jewish
untermenschen
German
Aryan
ubermenschen
Reich University of Strasbourg
Alsace
Occupied France
commisars
Red Army
Eastern front
Wermacht
Auschwitz concentration camp
Occupied Poland
Bruno Beger
quarantined
quarantine
Natzweiler-Struthof
Thessaloniki, Greece
gassing facility
Josef Kramer
Bergen Belsen
war in the East
Bolshevik
Commissars
Field Police
hermetically
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Elisabeth_Klein.jpg
Schonenbach
Hamelin prison
Albert Pierrepoint
West German
Polish born Jew
Serge and Beate Klarsfeld
University of Tübingen
Bitterfeld
Freising
German
surgeon
Sturmbannführer
experiments
spotted fever
yellow fever
[?jo?z?f ??u?d?lf ?m????l?]
[1]
German
Nazi concentration camp
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Munich University
Frankfurt University
forced laborer
reserve
5th SS Panzergrenadier Division Wiking
Captain
Nazi extermination camp
Birkenau
Gypsy
gassed
[8]
infirmary
Eduard Wirths
sobriquet
gas chambers
gas chambers
lice
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Auschwitz_Mengele_Block_10.jpg
heredity
identical twins
Berthold Epstein
pediatrician
Miklós Nyiszli
Hungarian
pathologist
noma
malnutrition
immune system
measles
dwarfs
Ovitz family
Romanian
deportation
Lilliput Troupe
amputations
surgeries
Rena Gelissen
shock treatments
Roma
chloroform
gangrene
anaesthesia
Gross Rosen
Lower Silesia
Wehrmacht
Racial Hygiene
prisoners of war
Rosenheim
Argentina
Innsbruck
Sterzing
Meran
Genoa
ODESSA
Buenos Aires
Hans-Ulrich Rudel
Adolf Eichmann
pharmaceutical
Vicente Lopez
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mengele_029.jpg
Hohenau
Mossad
Paraguay
Isser Harel
Eichmann
Alfredo Stroessner
Encarnación
Itapúa
Six-Day War
Asunción
Nova Europa
São Paulo
Bolivia
Klaus Barbie
Bertioga
Embu das Artes
Cândido Godói
war criminals
Nuremberg trials
arrest warrant
Fritz Bauer
Simon Wiesenthal
Beate Klarsfeld
Günzburg
forensic
UNICAMP
DNA
São Paulo Institute for Forensic Medicine
degenerate art
a former psychiatric institution at Sonnenstein castle
Secession
Görlitz
New Objectivity
Arnsdorf
schizophrenia
eugenicist
Sonnenstein castle
Pirna
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