Nazi Doctors & Medical Personnel
Nazi Doctor Who Beat Pregnant Women & Broke Legs With a Hammer: Herta Oberheuser
16m
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 became a war criminal in a white coat. Watch this gripping account of her crimes, trial, and the fate that awaited her after the war.
Up Next in Season 1
-
Nazi Doctor Who Turned from Angel to ...
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 Pois...
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...
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...
