HISC 116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Bonhoeffer Family, Telford Taylor, Nuremberg
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Karl bonhoeffer, chair of the german psychiatric association: change in the concept of humanity . Karl brandt: hitler empowered him in 1939 to kill patients considered incurable, a mercy killing. International justice after wwii: first time that international justice was created, palace of justice, nuremberg. All nuremberg was ruble, but the palace of justice was still in tact. Center of weapons production, why it had been bombed so aggressively: walter beals, presiding judge for crimes against humanity. Researching the experiments against people in the names of medicine in the camps, became that there would be more trials (crimes of a medical nature, etc. ) Nature of a crime made in the nature of medical science: telford taylor, chief counsel for the prosecution. Wrote the opening speeches and crafted the shape of the case for the. Nuremburg doctors trials: 23 doctors were left to stand trial, many got away.