ABSTRACT
In the years 1946 and 1947 at the palace of justice in Nuremberg took place the first of the so-called secondary war crime tribunals. In order to distinguish between criminal assault and battery on the one hand and allowed medical research on the other the court formulated the ten principles of Nuremberg or the Nuremberg Code. The early backers of the Nuremberg Code were naturally the chief of the prosecution, Telford Taylor, and Dr. Leo Alexander, the medical expert of die prosecution. Speaking on a symposium in 1976 in Hastings upon Hudson, Taylor has judged the proceedings in the Medical Case and its result as necessary. The judgment by the military court in the Medical Case had different follow-ups: the proceedings established beyond any doubt that many and considerable cruelties had been committed by doctors on patients/prisoners and that these cruelties had been supported by their superiors in the medical hierarchy.
