Editing Doctors' Trial (section)

==Case==
[[File:Witnesses at Doctors' trial.jpg|thumb|Witnesses at the Doctors' Trial.]]

Twenty of the defendants were [[physician]]s and three were [[SS]] officials ([[Viktor Brack]], [[Rudolf Brandt]], and [[Wolfram Sievers]]), all of whom were accused of being involved in [[Nazi human experimentation]] and the [[Aktion T4]] programme of [[involuntary euthanasia]]. The physicians came from a variety of civilian and military backgrounds, and some were members of the SS. Other Nazi physicians such as [[Philipp Bouhler]], [[Ernst-Robert Grawitz]], [[Leonardo Conti]], and [[Enno Lolling]] had died by suicide, while [[Josef Mengele]], one of the leading Nazi doctors, had evaded capture.

In his opening statement, Taylor summarized the crimes of the defendants.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Doctors Trial: The Medical Case of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings |url=https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-doctors-trial-the-medical-case-of-the-subsequent-nuremberg-proceedings |access-date=2023-10-10 |website=encyclopedia.ushmm.org |language=en}}</ref><blockquote>"The defendants in this case are charged with murders, tortures, and other atrocities committed in the name of [[medical science]]. The victims of these crimes are numbered in the hundreds of thousands. A handful only are still alive; a few of the survivors will appear in this courtroom. But most of these miserable victims were slaughtered outright or died in the course of the tortures to which they were subjected. For the most part they are nameless dead. To their murderers, these wretched people were not individuals at all. They came in wholesale lots and were treated worse than animals."</blockquote>