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“The defendants in this case are charged with murders, tortures, and other atrocities committed in the name of medical science. The victims of these crimes are numbered in the hundreds of thousands. A handful only are still alive; a few of the survivors will appear in this courtroom. But most of these miserable victims were slaughtered outright or died in the course of the tortures to which they were subjected."



For the most part they are nameless dead. To their murderers, these wretched people were not individuals at all. They came in wholesale lots and were treated worse than animals. They were 200 Jews in good physical condition, 50 gypsies, 500 tubercular Poles, or 1,000 Russians. The victims of these crimes are numbered among the anonymous millions who met death at the hands of the Nazis and whose fate is a hideous blot on the page of modern history.”

The above is the opening statement of the famous Doctor’s Trial, which is the trial conducted at the end of the war. While officially known as United States of America v. Karl Brandt, et al, this was a series of trials (12) for the war crimes that the United States held in their occupational zone in Nuremburg, Germany post-World War II.

There were 23 defendants, and 20 were medical doctors. All were accused of having been involved in Nazi human experimentation. Josef Mengele had, however, managed to evade capture. He eventually died of a strike while swimming in Brazil, managing to evade capture even until his death.

A very striking part of this trial is that every single person involved in the process was sentenced 10 years to life.

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