1946 (Dec 9)-1947 (Aug 19)

Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial, focusing on crimes of Karl Brandt (Hitler’s personal physician and the chief accused ) and other Nazi doctors (Tucker, 72-75). Brandt had designed euthanasia program. American prosecutors were less concerned with criticizing scientific practices than with demonstrating how the depravity of the Nazi system had penetrated the medical profession; there was concern among American and British scientists lest the trial “turn the public’s stomach against human experimentation in general” (Allen, 254-256). “For all the defendants, the impulse and strategy was to blame the dead. Himmler, the master deviant, was dead, as were Grawitz and Ding-Schuler” (256).