Nazi physicians

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Nazi physicians were doctors in Nazi Germany who participated in and oversaw inhumane medical experiments, forced euthanasia, and other atrocities that violated medical ethics and human rights.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf group of physicians
activeInPeriod 1933–1945
collaboratedWith Nazi Party officials
SS camp administration
committed crimes against humanity
war crimes
country Nazi Germany
employedBy German armed forces
linked to: German military

Reich Ministry of Health
linked to: Reich Health Office

Reich Ministry of the Interior
SS
ideology Nazism
influenced Nuremberg Code
informed consent standards
modern research ethics
justifiedCrimesBy eugenics theories
racial hygiene ideology
legalOutcome death sentences for some members
prison sentences for some members
notableMember Carl Clauberg
Herta Oberheuser
Joachim Mrugowsky
Josef Mengele
Karl Brandt
Otmar von Verschuer
Sigmund Rascher
Viktor Brack
Werner Heyde
operatedIn Auschwitz concentration camp
linked to: AuschwitzBirkenau

Buchenwald concentration camp
linked to: Buchenwald

Dachau concentration camp
linked to: Dachau

Ravensbrück concentration camp
concentration camps
extermination camps
participatedIn Aktion T4
Holocaust
Nazi human experimentation
performed bone, muscle, and nerve regeneration experiments
forced euthanasia
freezing experiments
high-altitude experiments
inhumane medical experiments
malaria experiments
mustard gas experiments
sea water experiments
sterilization by X-ray experiments
sterilization experiments
sulfonamide experiments
twin experiments
targetedGroup Jews
Roma
Soviet prisoners of war
homosexuals
people with disabilities
political prisoners
triedAt Doctors' Trial
Nuremberg Military Tribunal
usedCover public health measures
scientific research
violated human rights
medical ethics

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T4 program perpetrator Nazi physicians
Gerhard Rose employer Nazi German military medical services
linked to: Nazi physicians
Franz Schilling affiliation Nazi medical establishment
linked to: Nazi physicians
Kurt Blome positionHeld Plenipotentiary for Cancer Research in the Reich Research Council
linked to: Nazi physicians
Hadamar Euthanasia Centre perpetratorGroup Nazi doctors
linked to: Nazi physicians