Nazi sterilization experiments/Definition

In addition to the surgical methods of the earlier parts of the Nazi sterilization program, these experiments, between March 1941 andJanuary 1945, explored unproven techniques; they were onducted to develop methods of rapid, large scale sterilization in order to ensure the eventual elimination of "enemy" populations while keeping captive workers as a labor force during the war. Experiments were planned and/or conducted at [Auschwitz Concentration Camp]], Ravensbrueck, and elsewhere employing drugs, x-rays, and surgery. Charged were Viktor Brack, Karl Brandt, Rudolf Brandt, Karl Gebhardt, Joachim Mrugowsky, Herta Oberheuser, Pokorny, and Helmut Poppendick. The charges against Karl Mrugowsky and Herta Oberheuser were withdrawn. Karl Brandt, Pokorny, and Helmut Poppendick were acquitted; Brack, Rudolf Brandt, and Gebhardt were convicted.