Nazi medical experiments

A series of nonconsensual medical experiments performed, primarily at Nazi concentration camps, for various miitary and radial ideological reasons. Most surviving experimenters were tried at the Medical Case of the Nuremberg Military Tribunals. The Nuremberg Code, and then the Declaration of Helsinki, were created as a response to what most considered egregious violations of medical ethics.

Brigadier general Telford Taylor, the prosecutor, divided the experiments into two broad categories:

• Crime committed in the name of scientific research, generally with a military-related goal
• Experiments for Nazi race and biological ideology, such as skeleton collection and sterilization

While the acts are beyond all codes of medical ethics, such as the Declaration of Helsinki, it should be noted that there were fewer deaths in these programs than in the Japanese experimental program, especially Unit 731 under Shiro Ishii.