Following the defeat of Germany and Japan in World War II, the first trial held at Nuremburg was for those accused of medical atrocities.  Twenty-three individuals, 20 of whom were medical doctors, were tried for a wide variety of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Prisoners of the Nazis were subjected to, among other horrible things, blood experiments, sterilization, castration, mastectomies, starvation, amputations, electroshock, and so on.  Seeking cures for a variety of diseases, some prisoners (including children) were purposefully infected with typhus, hepatitis, Yellow Fever, smallpox, malaria, and the like. In order to understand and improve conditions for German soldiers, prisoners of the Nazis were also subjected to high-altitude and hypothermia experiments.  Doctors committed to the Nazi cause were also instrumental in Hitler's euthanasia and Final Solution programs. As the principal prosecutor, Telford Taylor, said in his opening statement...(Read Full Article)