[Court ruling against Dr. Schmidt and H. Schuerg]
Extent and Medium
1 electronic resource (37 pages)
Creator(s)
- Frankfurt am Main (Germany). Oberlandesgericht
Scope and Content
The file contains the German transcript of the sentence against Dr. Schmidt and his nurse, H. Schuerg in Court of appeal about the Euthanasia case. Dr. Schmidt and H. Schuerg have been sentenced before for killing numerous people with injections. The appeal court has changed Dr. Schmidt's sentence from life long prison to death penalty. Furthermore, the transcrip gives details about the ruling, that even if they obeyed the law under Hitler, people can still be hold accountable.
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Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Mode of access: WWW
Note(s)
Electronic access only
Electronic text and image data. Jerusalem : Yad Vashem 2015
Title viewed 02.05.2016
People
- Schmidt, Walter, 1910-1970
- Schurg, Helene
- Aktion T4 (Germany)
Subjects
- Human experimentation in medicine--Germany--History--1933-1945.
- Medicine--Germany--History--1933-1945.
- Euthanasia--Law and legislation
- Human experimentation in medicine--Germany--History--1933-1945.
- People with disabilities--Nazi persecution
- Euthanasia--Law and legislation
- Nuremberg Medical Trial, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1947
- War crime trials
- National socialism and medicine
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