How To Guides: Holocaust and Genocide Studies (House Bill 318): The Nuremberg Trials

The Nuremberg (and other postwar) Trials

Excerpt from Nuremberg Trials - U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum:

"After the war, the top surviving German leaders were tried for Nazi Germany’s crimes, including the crimes of the Holocaust. Their trial was held before an International Military Tribunal (IMT) in Nuremberg, Germany. Judges from the Allied powers—Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States—presided over the hearing of 22 major Nazi criminals. Subsequently, the United States held 12 additional trials in Nuremberg of high-level officials of the German government, military, and SS as well as medical professionals and leading industrialists. The crimes charged before the Nuremberg courts were crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and conspiracy to commit any of the foregoing crimes."

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Nazi Crimes Committed by Medical Professionals and Subsequent Trials and Medical Codes

Excerpt from The Doctors Trial: The Medical Case of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings - U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

“On December 9, 1946, an American military tribunal opened criminal proceedings against 23 leading German physicians and administrators for their willing participation in war crimes and crimes against humanity…In Nazi Germany, German physicians planned and enacted the Euthanasia Program, the systematic killing of those they deemed ‘unworthy of life.’ The victims included the institutionalized mentally ill and physically impaired. Further, during World War II, German physicians conducted pseudoscientific medical experiments utilizing thousands of concentration camp prisoners without their consent. Most died or were permanently impaired as a result. Jews, Poles, Russians, and Roma were the most common victims of experimentation.”