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United States Military Tribunal I (the Doctors' Trial)

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The Nuremberg Code was issued by the judges of United States Military Tribunal I at Nuremberg, Walter B. Beals (presiding), Harold L. Sebring and Johnson T. Crawford, as part of their judgment in United States v. Karl Brandt et al., the 'Doctors' Trial' of Nazi physicians and officials. American medical consultants to the prosecution, Andrew Ivy and Leo Alexander, contributed ideas that the judges adopted.

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The Nuremberg Code (Permissible Medical Experiments)

1947 · Postwar Contemporary · Essays

The Nuremberg Code is a list of ten principles for research on human beings. It forms a short section, titled 'Permissible Medical Experiments', of the judgment handed down in August 1947 in the trial known as the Doctors' Trial, the first of the twelve trials held by American military tribunals at Nuremberg after the main trial of Nazi leaders.