Following World War II the American Military Tribunal indicted twentythree 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 legal charges were brought against the doctors and what was their defense Who were the witnesses Did the defendants try to reconcile their brutal acts with the Hippocratic Code never to do harm or were they devoid of any medical ethics Did they constitute dishonorable exceptions to a principled German medical profession or were they symptomatic of a more widespread disregard for traditional medical ethics In trying to answer these questions Horst H. Freyhofer gives the reader the opportunity to follow the exchanges between prosecutors and defendants as well as the final reasoning of the court.