Medical Case (NMT)

Both dealing with individual criminality and establishing precedent for informed consent to medical experimentation, the medical case of the Nuremberg Military Tribunals, often called the Doctors' Trial,

Timetable

• Indictment filed: 25 October 1946
• Indictment served: 5 November 1946
• Arraignment: 21 November 1946
• Prosecution opening statement: 9 December 1946
• Defense opening statement: 29 January 1947
• Prosecution closing statement: 14 July 1947
• Defense closing statements: 14—18 July 1947
• Judgment: 19 August 1947
• Sentences: 20 August 1947
• Affirmation of sentences by Military Commander of the United States Zone of Occupation: 25 November 1947
• Order of the United States Supreme Court denying writ of habeas corpus: 16 February 1948
• Imposition of death sentences: 2 June 1948

Defendants

• Karl Brandt .
• Siegfried Handloser
• Paul Rostock
• Oskar Schroeder
• Karl Genzken
• Karl Gebhardt
• Kurt Blome
• Rudolf Brandt
• Joachim Mrugowsky
• Helmut Poppendick
• Wolfram Sievers
• Gerhard Rose
• Siegfried Ruff
• Hans Wolfgang Romberg
• Hermann Becker-Freyseng
• Georg August Weltz
• Konrad Schaefer
• Waldemar Hoven
• Wilhelm Beiglboeck
• Adolf Pokorny
• Herta Oberheuser
• Fritz Fischer