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Historical Film

Medical Case: U.S. prosecutor details illegal experiments

Nuremberg, Germany
Between October 1946 and August 1947
[English, 1:40]

The Medical Case was one of 12 war crimes trials held before an American tribunal as part of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings. The trial dealt with doctors and nurses who had participated in the killing of physically and mentally impaired Germans and who had performed medical experiments on people imprisoned in concentration camps. Here, chief prosecutor Brigadier General Telford Taylor reads into evidence a July 1942 report detailing Nazi high-altitude experiments and outlines the prosecution's goals for the trial.

— National Archives - Film


Referenced in the following Holocaust Encyclopedia article(s):

Case #1, The Medical Case »
Nazi Medical Experiments »
The Doctors Trial: The Medical Case of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings »