ABSTRACT
Historical accounts of the prosecution of medical war crimes have been predominantly written from the perspective focusing on the Nuremberg Medical Trial (NMT). This chapter utilizes a single significant case: Eugen Haagen's testimonies and trial examinations first at the NMT and at the Struthof Medical Trial (SMT) of the French Military Tribunals in Metz and Lyon against perpetrators involved in medical war crimes in the Natzweiler concentration camp. To include the SMT opens a perspective for a wider timeframe between 1945–1954 that implies that trials from NMT to SMT and early accounts of the NMT and press reports were highly related and influenced each other. The chapter suggests that comparative perspective beyond the Nuremberg Medical Trial provides new understanding of how the American and French Trials were in many ways linked, namely through the pre-trial investigations on war crimes, and the exchange of evidence, expert surveys and witnesses.
