Between 1945 and 1949 after World War II,
the former leaders of the German Nazi regime were tried as war criminals by an
international military tribunal consisting of judges from the four Allied
nations: the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union at the famousNuremberg Trials. Exactly 70 years ago, in December 1946, hearing began in the
trial of 23 doctors or collaborators implicated in the crimes of this
totalitarian regime (The Doctors’ Trial; United States of America vs. Karl
Brandt). This trial exposed a terribly abnormal ideology which sanctioned and
institutionalized criminal behavior related to public health and human
research. Among violations of ethics in medical professionals, transgressions
included the use of drugs.
In 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of
Germany and the National Socialist Party (Nationalsozialistische deutsche
Arbeiterpartei) gradually established a one-party state. The whole regime hadstayed in power only for about 12 years, from 1933 till 1945 after its defeatat the end of WWII by the Allies Forces. But the damage under Nazi regime was
tremendous, including the medical ethics.
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