Karl Gebhardt
Karl Gebhardt | |
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| Born | Karl Franz Gebhardt 23 November 1897 |
| Died | 2 June 1948 (aged 50) |
| Cause of death | Execution by hanging |
| Resting place | Ostfriedhof (Munich) |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Title | SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
| Political party | Nazi Party |
| Criminal status | Executed |
| Awards | Knight's Cross of the War Merit Cross |
| Convictions | 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.
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.