Carl Clauberg And The Nuremberg Trials

In December 9, 1946 the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi physicians took place; lasting until August of the following year (The Nazi Doctors). The Allies had a reason for selecting the city of Nuremberg. Nuremberg was the most admired city by the Nazis because of its “Germanness.” Nazis admired it so much that they even chose it as a location of their party rallies (The Holocaust Chronicle 651). The foundation for each trial was contemporary medical practice. Judges in these trials found that certain principles must be observed to satisfy moral, ethical, and legal concepts (Jewish Virtual Library). Voluntary consent of the patient was necessary to be eligible to experiment of the subject. Experiments should result in good for the society and not in

Carl Clauberg was a well-known gynecologist leading him to relate his medical studies in the holocaust to his previous job (Jewish Virtual Library). Dr. Carl Clauberg was the leading physician in the conceiving experiment. Carl was one of the fifteen found guilty. Clauberg’s trial took place in the Soviet Union and was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. Dr. Clauberg was pardoned seven years later under the returnee arrangement of Bonn and Moscow (The Nazi Doctors). After returning to West Germany, he held a press conference about ways he perfected sterilization in Auschwitz and boasted of his cruel scientific achievements. Carl was unable to go unnoticed by the survivors of those camps, and was finally arrested in 1955, due to the survivor group’s protests (Jewish Virtual Library). Dr. Clauberg died from a heart attack in August 1957, just before his trial should have started. Some of the most gruesome experiments conducted were administered by Dr. Herta Obereuser. She was the only female defendant on the stand in the Nuremberg Trials. Dr. Obereuser was one of the eight found guilty, and sentenced to twenty years in prison. Herta’s sentence was reduced to ten years. In April 1952, due to good behavior she was released. In her return to Stocksee, Germany, Obereuser became a family doctor. In 1956, a survivor recognized Dr. Herta Obereuser, loosing licenses to practice medicine in 1958. Dr. Obereuser died in January 1978, at the age of

Test tubes were found containing intestines and stomach documented with an autopsy number – No. 107969 – relating to a tattoo on the arm of one of Hirt’s victims, a milk man from Berlin. The university states that they never intended to hide these specimens from the public (Bever). Director Raul states, “The collection contains many forensic cases that involve stab wounds, handing and suffocation, for example, to help educate forensic scientists and students