Karl Brandt Quotes

1904–1948 Germany

Karl Brandt (January 8, 1904 – June 2, 1948) was the personal physician of Adolf Hitler in August 1944 and headed the administration of the Nazi euthanasia program from 1939. As Major General Reich Commissioner for Health and Sanitation he was involved in human experimentation and was tried along with many others in Nuremberg, Germany, the trial more commonly referred to as the "Doctors' Trial." He was charged with Freezing, Malaria, LOST Gas, Sulfanilamide, Bone, Muscle and Nerve Regeneration and Bone Transplantation, Sea-Water, Epidemic Jaundice, Sterilization, and Typhus Experiments and was

Germany
Physicians

Also known as: Brandt, Karl

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Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war.

How can the nation which holds the lead in human experimentation in any conceivable form, how can that nation dare to accuse and punish other nations which only copied their experimental procedures?

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Karl Brandt (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.