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The doctors' trial was the first of 12 trials for war crimes of high-ranking German officials and industrialists that US authorities held in Nuremberg after the end of World War II.  

Twenty of the twenty-three defendants were medical doctors, and were said to have been involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia.    

The accused were faced with four charges of war crimes, including performing medical experiments, without the subjects' consent, on prisoners of war and civilians of occupied countries, in the course of which experiments the defendants committed murders, brutalities, cruelties, tortures, atrocities, and other inhuman acts. 

They were also charged with planning and performing the mass murder of prisoners of war and civilians of occupied countries, stigmatised as aged, insane, incurably ill, deformed, and so on, by gas, lethal injections, and other means in nursing homes, hospitals, and asylums during the Euthanasia Program and participating in the mass murder of concentration camp inmates.

Accusations also included crimes against humanity and membership in a criminal organization, the SS.

The indictment was filed on 25 October 1946, and the trial lasted from 9 December that year until 20 August 1947. 

Of the 23 defendants, seven were acquitted and seven received death sentences.

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