Doctors' Trial

E41932

The Doctors' Trial was a post–World War II Nuremberg military tribunal in which Nazi physicians and medical administrators were prosecuted for war crimes and crimes against humanity, particularly for inhumane medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners.

AI illustration

How this image was made

AI-generated illustration of Doctors' Trial

This AI-generated illustration was produced by black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-dev (1024x1024) from a prompt written by openai/gpt-oss-120b from the entity's label + description.

Prompt

Generate an image of the Doctors' Trial (The Doctors' Trial was a post–World War II Nuremberg military tribunal in which Nazi physicians and medical administrators were prosecuted for war crimes and crimes against humanity, particularly for inhumane medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners.)

All labels observed (6)

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (73)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Nuremberg Military Tribunal
crimes against humanity trial
war crimes trial
alsoKnownAs Medical Case
alternateJudge Victor C. Swearingen
charge crimes against humanity
membership in a criminal organization
war crimes
concernedWith Jewish skeleton collection
bone, muscle, and nerve regeneration experiments
euthanasia killings
experiments on concentration camp prisoners
freezing experiments
high-altitude experiments
inhumane medical experiments
malaria experiments
mustard gas experiments
sea-water experiments
sterilization experiments
sulfonamide experiments
typhus experiments
country United States of America
court U.S. Nuremberg Military Tribunal I
criminalOrganizationMentioned SS
defendant Adolf Pokorny
Bruno Beger
Franz Schilling
Gerhard Rose
Helmut Poppendick
Hermann Becker-Freyseng
Herta Oberheuser
Joachim Mrugowsky
Karl Brandt
Karl Gebhardt
Karl Genzken
Karl Wimmer
Kurt Blome
Kurt Plötner
Oskar Schröder
Paul Rostock
Rudolf Brandt
Siegfried Ruff
Viktor Brack
Wilhelm Beiglböck
Wolfram Sievers
endDate 1947-08-20
heldAt Palace of Justice, Nuremberg
historicalPeriod post–World War II
judge Harold L. Sebring
Johnson T. Crawford
languageOfProceedings English
German
legalBasis Allied Control Council Law No. 10
location American Zone of Occupation in Germany
Nuremberg
mainDefendant Karl Brandt
notableOutcome establishment of principles of informed consent in human experimentation
international attention to Nazi medical crimes
numberOfAcquittedDefendants 7
numberOfConvictedDefendants 16
numberOfDeathSentences 7
numberOfDefendants 23
numberOfIndictedDefendants 23
numberOfLifeSentences 5
numberOfOtherPrisonSentences 4
officialName United States of America v. Karl Brandt et al.
organizedBy Office of Chief of Counsel for War Crimes
partOf Subsequent Nuremberg Trials
linked to: Nuremberg trials
presidingJudge Walter B. Beals
prosecutor Telford Taylor
resultedIn formulation of the Nuremberg Code
startDate 1946-12-09
subjectOf Nuremberg Code

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (48)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

IG Farben Trial precededBy Doctors' Trial
NMT Case X court Military Tribunal III-A
linked to: Doctors' Trial
T4 program alsoKnownAs T4 Euthanasia Program
linked to: Doctors' Trial
U.S. Nuremberg Military Tribunal I alsoKnownAs Doctors' Trial tribunal
linked to: Doctors' Trial
Victor C. Swearingen participatedIn Doctors' Trial
Joachim Mrugowsky participantIn Doctors' Trial
Herta Oberheuser convictedBy Doctors' Trial
Herta Oberheuser participantIn Doctors' Trial
Gerhard Rose wasTriedAt Doctors' Trial
Gerhard Rose defendantIn Doctors' Trial
Nuremberg Code createdInContextOf Doctors' Trial
Oskar Schröder defendantIn Doctors' Trial
Oskar Schröder defendantIn Nuremberg Medical Case
linked to: Doctors' Trial
Adolf Pokorny wasTriedAt Doctors' Trial
Franz Schilling subjectOf Doctors' Trial
Franz Schilling participantIn Doctors' Trial
Medical Case alsoKnownAs Doctors' Trial
Karl Brandt participantIn Doctors' Trial
Kurt Blome triedAt Doctors' Trial
Viktor Brack participantIn Doctors' Trial
Rudolf Brandt participantIn Doctors' Trial
Rudolf Brandt subjectOf Doctors' Trial
Karl Gebhardt participantIn Doctors' Trial
Nuremberg IG Farben trial precededBy Doctors' Trial
Wolfram Sievers trial Doctors' Trial
Nuremberg Doctors' Trial alsoKnownAs Doctors' Trial
Walter B. Beals participatedIn Doctors' Trial
Karl Genzken participantIn Doctors' Trial
Paul Rostock notableEvent Doctors' Trial
Paul Rostock participantIn Doctors' Trial
Siegfried Ruff subjectOf Doctors' Trial
Siegfried Ruff participantIn Doctors' Trial
Wilhelm Beiglböck wasTriedAt Doctors' trial
linked to: Doctors' Trial
Hermann Becker-Freyseng participatedIn Doctors' Trial
Hermann Becker-Freyseng trial Doctors' Trial
Karl Wimmer wasDefendantIn Doctors' Trial
Helmut Poppendick triedAt Doctors' Trial
Johnson T. Crawford participatedIn Doctors' Trial
Nazi physicians triedAt Doctors' Trial
Joachim Mrugowsky subjectOf Doctors' trial
subject linked to: Mrugowsky
linked to: Doctors' Trial
Herta Oberheuser convictedIn Doctors' trial
subject linked to: Oberheuser
linked to: Doctors' Trial
Siegfried Handloser participantIn Doctors' Trial
Fritz Fischer wasTriedIn Doctors' Trial
Karl Becker participatedIn Doctors' Trial
Viktor Brack convictedAt Doctors' Trial
subject linked to: Brack
Rudolf Hermann Brandt participantIn Doctors' Trial