Nazi Doctors & Medical Personnel

Nazi Doctors & Medical Personnel

12 Episodes

Doctors swear to save lives. But under Nazi rule, many used their knowledge to destroy them. This collection explores doctors and medical staff who used science as a weapon—conducting cruel experiments, enforcing racial ideology, and deciding who lived or died. From infamous figures like Josef Mengele to lesser-known accomplices, these stories reveal how medicine was twisted into an instrument of terror and how justice sought to confront their crimes.

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Nazi Doctors & Medical Personnel
  • The Doctor of Death at Auschwitz & His Medical Experiments: Josef Mengele

    Episode 1

    Known as the “Angel of Death,” Josef Mengele ruled Auschwitz’s selection ramp and carried out brutal experiments on twins, pregnant women, and children. Discover the chilling truth of the Nazi doctor who escaped justice for decades and died unpunished in Brazil.

  • The Female Face of Nazi Euthanasia: Head Nurse of Death Irmgard Huber

    Episode 2

    In 1945, US troops liberated Hadamar, uncovering one of Nazi Germany’s killing centers. Over 14,000 patients were murdered there under the so-called “Euthanasia Program.” Irmgard Huber, the head nurse, controlled the drugs used for killings and falsified death records. Convicted but spared the g...

  • Cruel Experiments of Nazi Doctor Who Tried to “Cure” Homosexuality: Carl Værnet

    Episode 3

    Carl Værnet, a Danish doctor, became notorious for his Nazi-backed experiments on homosexual prisoners in Buchenwald. Obsessed with creating an “artificial sex gland,” he tested his implants on inmates, leaving death and suffering behind. This film uncovers the story of medicine twisted into crue...

  • Nazi Doctor Who Beat Pregnant Women & Broke Legs With a Hammer: Herta Oberheuser

    Episode 4

    Herta Oberheuser was the only female defendant in the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial. At Ravensbrück concentration camp, she assisted in brutal medical experiments, breaking bones, infecting wounds, and killing women with lethal injections, calling it “medical help.” Once a respected physician, she bec...

  • Nazi Doctor Who Turned from Angel to Butcher: Hans Eisele

    Episode 5

    Hans Eisele began as a camp doctor praised for kindness, but at Buchenwald he became known as the “Butcher.” He carried out brutal experiments, performed surgeries without anesthesia, ordered killings, and left a trail of corpses. Tried after the war, his sentences were reduced, and he eventually...

  • Nazi Doctor Who Shot People With Poisoned Bullets: Joachim Mrugowsky

    Episode 6

    Joachim Mrugowsky, an SS doctor, oversaw some of the most infamous human experiments of the Nazi regime. From typhus and vaccine tests at Buchenwald to poison bullet experiments at Sachsenhausen, he turned prisoners into test subjects. Tried at the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial, he was convicted of wa...

  • Auschwitz’s “Beast of Block 10”: Nazi Doctor Horst Schumann

    Episode 7

    Horst Schumann, known as the “Beast of Block 10,” was one of the most sadistic Nazi doctors. From the T4 euthanasia program to Auschwitz, he experimented on men, women, and children with deadly X-ray sterilizations and brutal operations. After the war he fled to Africa, evading justice for decade...

  • Hitler’s Nazi Doctor - The Drug Dealer of the Führer: Theodor Morell

    Episode 8

    When Adolf Hitler rose to power in 1933, he promised discipline, order, and strength.
    But behind the façade of control stood a man consumed by paranoia, illness, and addiction.
    His personal physician, Dr. Theodor Morell, injected him up to twenty times a day with narcotics — from methamphetamine ...

  • The Architect of Nazi Euthanasia: Karl Brandt

    Episode 9

    As Adolf Hitler’s personal physician and Commissioner for Health and Sanitation, Karl Brandt became one of the central figures behind Nazi Germany’s medical crimes. Convinced that some lives were “unworthy of life,” he co-led the secret T4 Euthanasia Program that gassed and starved more than 250,...

  • Himmler’s Doctor and His Experiments in Ravensbrück Camp: Karl Gebhardt

    Episode 10

    He was Heinrich Himmler’s personal physician — a man who turned medicine into cruelty. At the Ravensbrück concentration camp, SS doctor Karl Gebhardt conducted brutal experiments on women, breaking bones, infecting wounds, and amputating limbs in the name of “science.” What began as an attempt to...

  • Nazi Doctor Who Made Camp Prisoners Drink Seawater: Wilhelm Beiglböck

    Episode 11

    In the final years of World War II, Austrian physician Wilhelm Beiglböck, serving as a Luftwaffe doctor, carried out brutal seawater experiments at the Dachau concentration camp.
    Forty Roma and Sinti prisoners were forced to drink chemically treated seawater to test survival methods for downed Ge...

  • The Nazi Doctor Who Experimented on the Living: Fritz Fischer

    Episode 12

    At the Ravensbrück concentration camp, SS doctor Fritz Fischer took part in some of the most horrifying medical experiments of the Nazi regime. Under the supervision of Karl Gebhardt and on orders from Heinrich Himmler, Fischer infected, mutilated, and amputated the limbs of Polish women — the so...