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In 1946 and 1947 a military court of the United States, as the occupying power for Southern Germany, tried 20 physicians and three nonphysician Nazi officials for crimes committed in the course of human experiments performed in German oncentration and prisoner of war camps. Seven of the defendants were acquitted; nine were sentenced to prison terms of varying lengths, and seven were sentenced to death. On June 2, 1948, the seven condemned men were hanged by the neck until dead.1
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For a broad discussion, see George J. Annas and Michael A. Grodin, eds., The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code: Human Rights in Human Experimentatio? (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).
Henry K. Beecher, “Ethics and Clinical Research,” New England Journal of Medicin? 174 (1966): 1354–1360.
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Greely, H.T. (2010). From Nuremberg to the Human Genome: The Rights of Human Research Participants. In: Rubenfeld, S. (eds) Medicine after the Holocaust. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230102293_18
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