Nuremberg Trial:
1. The Nuremberg trial was conducted by the International Military Tribunal and consisted of 23 German physicians who were accused of murder and torture through medical experiments. Aside form the systematic killings via their “Euthanasia” Program, the Nazis in Germany also conducted medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners without soliciting any consent whatsoever ("United States Holocaust Memorial Museum").
2. Michael McCally acclaims that, “The moral outrageousness of the Nazi experiments is so great that it deserves to be set aside as a special and horrible reminder of human evil in our own time” (McCally, Cassel, and Kimball 10). The experiments that these physicians were accused of were not only barbaric in nature, but also dehumanizing, stripping prisoners of any sort of human dignity. It was estimated that 70 “medical-research” programs were running at the Nazi concentration camps, utilizing 7,000 prisoners and around 200 physicians. For one experiment, prisoners were put into freezing water for at least an hour then different methods of warming up their bodies were tried to find a treatment for hypothermia. No painkillers were used in these freezing experiments ("Background and Overview of Nazi Medical Experiments"). For other experiments, prisoners were subjected to gas poisoning in order to find an antidote for it. Additionally, the most infamous was the use of twins, dwarfs, and people with abnormalities in experiments to substantiate the supposed, “superiority” of the Nordic race ("Background and Overview of Nazi Medical Experiments"). After hearing testimonies from 85 witnesses, 16 of 23 were found guilty: 7 – sentenced to death by hanging, 5 – life imprisonment, 2 – imprisonment for 25 years, and 1 – imprisonment for 15 years.
2. Michael McCally acclaims that, “The moral outrageousness of the Nazi experiments is so great that it deserves to be set aside as a special and horrible reminder of human evil in our own time” (McCally, Cassel, and Kimball 10). The experiments that these physicians were accused of were not only barbaric in nature, but also dehumanizing, stripping prisoners of any sort of human dignity. It was estimated that 70 “medical-research” programs were running at the Nazi concentration camps, utilizing 7,000 prisoners and around 200 physicians. For one experiment, prisoners were put into freezing water for at least an hour then different methods of warming up their bodies were tried to find a treatment for hypothermia. No painkillers were used in these freezing experiments ("Background and Overview of Nazi Medical Experiments"). For other experiments, prisoners were subjected to gas poisoning in order to find an antidote for it. Additionally, the most infamous was the use of twins, dwarfs, and people with abnormalities in experiments to substantiate the supposed, “superiority” of the Nordic race ("Background and Overview of Nazi Medical Experiments"). After hearing testimonies from 85 witnesses, 16 of 23 were found guilty: 7 – sentenced to death by hanging, 5 – life imprisonment, 2 – imprisonment for 25 years, and 1 – imprisonment for 15 years.