Doctors' Trial
The Doctors' Trial was the trial of several Nazi medical researchers for war crimes and crimes against humanity under the Nuremberg Code, following the Nuremberg Trials of military and political leadership figures.The trials were held from December 9, 1946 to August 20, 1947
The verdicts and sentences were as follows:
- Herman Becker-Freyseng - guilty - 20 years imprisonment, commuted to 10 years
- Wilhelm Beiglböck - guilty - 20 years imprisonment, commuted to 10 years
- Viktor Brack - guilty - 20 years imprisonment
- Kurt Blome - not guilty
- Karl Brandt - guilty - death
- Rudolf Brandt - guilty - death
- Fritz Fischer - guilty - life imprisonment, commuted to 15 years
- Karl Gebhardt - guilty - death
- Karl Genkzen - guilty - life imprisonment, commuted to 20 years
- Siegfriend Handloser - guilty - life imprisonment, commuted to 20 years
- Waldemar Hoven - guilty - death
- Joachim Mrugowsky - guilty - death
- Herta Oberheuser - guilty - 20 years imprisonment, commuted to 10 years
- Adolf Pokorny - not guilty
- Helmut Poppendick - guilty - 10 years imprisonment, commuted to none
- Gerhard Rose - guilty - life imprisonment, commuted to 20 years
- Paul Rostock - not guilty
- Siegfried Ruff - not guilty
- Konrad Shäfer - not guilty
- Oskar Schröder - guilty - life imprisonment, commuted to 15 years
- Wolfram Sievers - guilty - death
Generally, the difference between a prison term and the death sentence was membership in "an organization declared criminal by the judgement of the International Military Tribunal" — in other words, the Nazi Party.
