The Nuremberg Medical Trial: The Holocaust and the Origin of the Nuremberg Medical Code

by Horst H. Freyhofer

Following World War II, the American Military Tribunal indicted twenty-three Nazi doctors and administrators for performing agonizing and often fatal experiments on helpless concentration camp inmates. Using primarily court records, this book attempts to answer the following salient questions: What sort of medical experiments did the Nazi doctors perform? Who were their victims, and what was their fate? What, if any, were the medical results? What...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820467979
• ISBN13: 9780820467979
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"