Nazi typhus and other vaccine experiments/Definition
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Conducted for the benefit of the German armed forces to test the effectiveness of vaccines against typhus, smallpox, cholera, and other diseasesd at Buchenwald Concentration Camp and Natzweiler Concentration Camp (December 1941 - February 1945}
Charged against Hermann Becker-Freyseng, Karl Brandt, Rudolf Brandt, Karl Gebhardt, Karl Genzken, Siegfried Handloser, Waldemar Hoven, Joachim Mrugowsky, Helmut Poppendick, Gerhardt Rose, Paul Rostock, Oskar Schroeder, and Wolfram Sievers. Hermann Becker-Freyseng, Karl Brandt, Karl Gebhardt, Helmut Poppendick, and Paul Rostock were acquitted; Rudolf Brandt, Karl Genzken, Siegfried Handloser, Waldemar Hoven, Karl Mrugowsky, Rose, Oskar Schroeder, and Wolfram Sievers were convicted.