Medical Case (NMT)
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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, tried defendants for Nazi medical experiments.
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
| Defendant | Sentence |
|---|---|
| Hermann Becker-Freyseng | 20 years |
| Wilhelm Beiglboeck | 15 years |
| Kurt Blome | Acquitted |
| Karl Brandt | Death by hanging |
| Rudolf Brandt | Death by hanging |
| Fritz Fischer | Life imprisonment |
| Karl Gebhardt | Death by hanging |
| Karl Genzken | Life imprisonment |
| Waldemar Hoven | Death by hanging |
| Siegfried Handloser | Life imprisonment |
| Joachim Mrugowsky | Death by hanging |
| Herta Oberheuser | 20 years |
| Adolf Pokorny | Acquitted |
| Helmut Poppendick | Acquitted of charges but guilty of SS membership |
| Gerhardt Rose | Life imprisonment |
| Paul Rostock | Acquitted |
| Siegfried Ruff | Acquitted |
| Konrad Schaefer | Acquitted |
| Oskar Schroeder | Life imprisonment |
| Wolfram Sievers | Death by hanging |
| Hans Wolfgang Romberg | Acquitted |
| Georg August Weltz | Acquitted |