Nazi typhus and other vaccine experiments

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The Nazi typhus and other vaccine experiments were conducted for the benefit of the German armed forces to test the effectiveness of vaccines against typhus, smallpox, cholera, and other diseases. They were performed at Buchenwald and Natzweiler Concentration Camps, between December 1941 and February 1945. They are distinct from the Nazi infectious jaundice experiments.

In the Medical Case (NMT), charges were preferred against Hermann Becker-Freyseng, Karl Brandt, Rudolf Brandt, Karl Gebhardt, Karl Genzken, Siegfried Handloser, Waldemar Hoven, Joachim Mrugowsky, Helmut Poppendick, Gerhardt Rose, Paul Rostock, Oskar Schroeder, and Wolfram Sievers.

Becker-Freyseng, Karl Brandt, Gebhardt, Poppendick, and Rostock were acquitted. Rudolf Brandt, Genzken, Handloser, Hoven, Mrugowsky, Rose, Schroeder, and Sievers were convicted.