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Q- What is the Trial of 23?

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Trial 23 was the trial of Nazi Doctors who were accused of fallowing Joseph Mengele’s human experimentation during World War II, it was filed on October 25 1946, and was to be held in Nuremberg Germany. the actual trial lasted from December 9th till August 20th 1947. Out of the 23 Doctors, seven were given the death sentence, and the other 16 got a range of jail time from 10 years to life imprisonment. The 23 doctors were accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity, performing medical experiments on patients who had not given their consent, planning mass murder against prisoners of war, civilians, the old, the deformed, and the insane, distributing lethal injections, and membership to a criminal organization the SS. The different punishments were given based on the level of involvement of the individual."Oberheuser killed healthy children with injections made from oil, mixed with the barbiturate evipan, and then removed their limbs and vital organs. The time from injection to death was around five minutes, with the person being fully conscious until the last moment."( Boehlau Verlag) this is an example of what the Nazi Doctor Herta Oberheuse did, she was one of the 7 who received the death penalty. But these 23 doctors were not the only Doctors who were involved with gruesome and unnecessary experiments carried out upon innocent people. Many others were involved and should have been punished, but they were not found and have not been found today. The case is now closed and will be closed, there is no going back and those who deserved punishment will not receive a penalty.

In the court room of the trial 23.



A photo of Herta Oberheuser, the only women Nazi doctor at the trial.

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