Doctors' Trial The Doctors Trial (officially United States of America v. Karl Brandt, et al.) Was the first of twelve trials for war crimes and crimes against humanity, carried out by U.S. authorities in its area of occupancy in Nuremberg, Germany after the end of the Second World War. These judgments, collectively known as the Nuremberg Trials were carried out by American military tribunals in Nuremberg (Germany). Adam Roseman ARC China Twenty of the 23 defendants were physicians (Brack, Rudolf Brandt and Sievers being Nazi officers) and all were charged with planning and carrying out medical experiments without the consent of those affected, both in hospital patients and prisoners in concentration camps , medical experiments during which they committed murder, torture, atrocities and other inhumane acts.They were also accused of planning and carrying out the mass murder of people stigmatized as old, weak, insane, incurably ill, and so on., By gassing, lethal injection, malnutrition and other means, in nursing homes, hospices, hospitals and other medical institutions, during the Euthanasia Program. They were eventually charged with participating and collaborating in the mass murder of people interned in concentration camps and extermination.