Landsberg Prison, Landsberg am Lech, Allied-occupied Germany
Cause of death
Execution by hanging
Resting place
Ostfriedhof (Munich)
Nationality
German
Occupation
Physician
Title
SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant of the Waffen-SS
Political party
Nazi Party
Criminal status
Executed
Awards
Knight's Cross of the War Merit Cross
Conviction(s)
War crimes Crimes against humanity Membership in a criminal organization
Trial
Doctors' trial
Criminal penalty
Death
Karl Franz Gebhardt (23 November 1897 – 2 June 1948) was a Nazi physician and a war criminal. Gebhardt was the main coordinator of a series of medical atrocities performed on inmates of the concentration camps at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz. These experiments were an attempt to defend his approach to the surgical management of grossly contaminated traumatic wounds, against the then-new innovations of antibiotic treatment of injuries acquired on the battlefield.[1]
During the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials, Gebhardt stood trial in the Doctors' trial (American Military Tribunal No. I). He was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to death on 20 August 1947. He was hanged on 2 June 1948, in Landsberg Prison in Bavaria.[1]
^ abDörner, K, ed. (2001). The Nuremberg Medical Trial 1946/47:guide to the microfiche edition. Munich: K.G. Saur Verlag GmbH. p. 91. ISBN 3598321546.
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