Following World War II, the American Military Tribunal indicted twenty-  three Nazi doctors and administrators for performing agonizing and often fatal experiments on   helpless concentration camp inmates. Using primarily court records, this book attempts to   answer the following salient questions: What sort of medical experiments did the Nazi doctors   perform? Who were their victims, and what was their fate? What, if any, were the medical   results? What legal charges were brought against the doctors, and what was their defense? Who   were the witnesses? Did the defendants try to reconcile their brutal acts with the Hippocratic   Code never to do harm, or were they devoid of any medical ethics? Did they constitute   dishonorable exceptions to a principled German medical profession, or were they symptomatic   of a more widespread disregard for traditional medical ethics? In trying to answer these   questions, Horst H. Freyhofer gives the reader the opportunity to follow the exchanges   between prosecutors and defendants as well as the final reasoning of the court.

The Nuremberg Medical Trial: the Holocaust and the origin of the Nuremberg medical code PDF

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