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Out of all of the Nazi doctors that willingly performed deadly experiments on there patients, only 23 of them were put on trial. The trials in which the doctors and other war criminals were tried were called the Nuremburg trials. These doctors were all on trial for four different charges; Common design or conspiracy, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and membership in criminal organizations.

The doctors that were tried in Nuremburg were Karl Brandt, Siegries Handloser, Oskar Schroeder, Karl Genzken, Karl Gebhardt, Joachim Mrugowsky, Helmut Poppendick, Wolfram Sievers, Gaerhard Rose, Viktor Brack, Hermann Becker-Freyseng, Waldemar Hoven, Wilhelm Beiglboeck, Herta Oberheuser, and Fritz Fischer.

Among these doctors, Karl Brandt, Karl Gebhardt, Rudolf Brandt, Joachim Mrugowsky, Wolfram Sievers, Viktor Brack, and Waldemar Hoven were sentenced to death by hanging. The others were sentenced to lengthy prison sentences, the most popular one being lifetime sentences.

One person excluded from the list of doctors tried at Nuremburg was Dr. Josef Mengele, also known as the "Angel of Death". After the war he was able to escape from a British Internment Hospital with the help of some false papers. He was then able to flee to Rome and then to Buenos Aires. Eye witnesses claimed to have seen him later in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. In 1959, he was even naturalized as a citizen of Paraguay. Even though the German government was somewhat aware of where he was hiding, and even with a large reward, the German government was unable to capture Mengele and Bring him in for a trial. In 1985 his remains were found in Brazil and an autopsy was performed by a panel of foreing pathologists. They concluded that he had died in a swimming accident in 1978.

For more information on Josef Mengele during and after the war, click [|here].

By: Matt Kirchner