Doctors' Trial
On December 9, 1946, a trial against 23 Nazi doctors was held. The U.S.H.M.M. gives a brief overview of the trial with excerpts of the opening statements, indictments, excerpts from testimony, and sentences.The Doctors' Trial
From your About.com Guide - Twenty-three defendants, many horrible experiments.Medical Experiments of the Holocaust and Nazi Medicine
This page gives brief, summary information on the following experiments: freezing/hypothermia, genetic, and twins.Josef Mengele
From your About.com Guide - A short biography of the notorious Auschwitz doctor.Josef Mengele
Though this site has many inaccuracies (ex. Mengele did not himself perform autopsies on the twins, he had a Jewish inmate do it for him), it does list some of the brutal things Mengele did. Also, this site has several pictures of Mengele."Mengele's Children": The Twins of Auschwitz
From your About.com Guide - Mengele's favorite experiments were on twins. What did he do and why?Not a Slippery Slope or Sudden Subversion: German Medicine and National Socialism in 1933
This academic article, written by Hartmut M. Hanauske-Abel, M.D., discusses two theories of Nazi infiltration into German medicine: slippery slope or sudden subversion. Did German medicine slowly slide into Nazi ideology, have sudden takeover by Nazis, or something else?Nuremberg Lamentation: For the Forgotten Victims of Medical Science
William E. Seidelman, M.D. discusses a moral question of Nazi medicine - the exercise of professional power and its impact on vulnerable people seeking medical care. This article discusses the State's misuse of professional power, the fiscal pressures and lack of ethics to curb power, as well as naming some of the doctors and discussing their fates after the war.T-4 Medical Questionnaire
These completed questionnaires enabled selectors to determine if the patient should be killed in the Nazi euthanasia program (T-4).
