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| Keywords: Karl-Brandt.jpg Death by hanging is pronounced by a U S War Crimes Tribunal at Nuremberg upon Adolf Hitler's personal physcian 43-year old Karl Brandt Brandt who was also Reich Commissar for Health and Sanitation was indicted by the U S prosecution with 22 other Nazi doctors and SS officers on war crimes charges in the first case of alleged criminals tried after the judgment in the International Military Tribunal The Tribunal found him guilty on all four counts charging him with conspiracy in aggressive wars war crimes crimes against humanity and membership in the criminal SS organization Among those criminal acts was his participating in and consenting to using concentration camp inmates as guinea pigs in horrible medical experiments supposedly for the benefit of the armed forces Brandt who was executioner of thousands of political racial and religious persecutees was hanged on June 2 1948 at Landsberg prison after the U S Military Commander Gen Lucius D Clay and the U S Supreme Court upheld the sentence of the Nuremberg Tribunal In a long-winded speech that was finally muffled when the black hood was thrown over his head Brandt shouted arrogantly It is no shame to stand on this scaffold; I have served my country as have others before me Hitler was also once imprisoned here in 1923 following his unsuccessful Munich putsch He wrote Mein Kampf during his confinement Original Descriptive Caption Date 20 August 1947 Provenance From Public Relations Photo Section Office Chief of Counsel for War Crimes Nuremberg Germany APO 696-A US Army Photo No OMT-I-D-144 Citation Telford Taylor Papers Arthur W Diamond Law Library Columbia University Law School New York N Y TTP-CLS 15-1-1-76 Doctors' Trial Karl Brandt People with headphones | ||||
