Waldemar Hoven — Doctors' Trial Index

Index > Waldemar Hoven

Position

Hauptsturmführer (Captain) in the Waffen-SS; and Chief Doctor of the Buchenwald concentration camp.

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Indictment

1. Conspiracy to commit war crimes against humanity: The ordering, planning, and organization of the war crimes and crimes against humanity charged in counts two and three.

2. War crimes: Typhus ("spotted fever") and other vaccine experiments; and Euthanasia.

3. Crimes against humanity: Typhus ("spotted fever") and other vaccine experiments; and Euthanasia.

4. Membership in a criminal organization: Membership in the SS.

Prosecution’s Case

• Opening Statement (December 9th, 1946)

• Typhus (“spotted fever”) and other vaccine experiments (January 3rd, 1947 — January 10th)

• Euthanasia (January 10th — January 28th)

• Prosecution’s closing statement (July 14th)

Defense’s Case

• Entered pleas of Not Guilty (December 9th, 1946)

• Opening statement (January 30th, 1947)

• Defense case begins (June 21st)

• Witnesses:

  1. Waldemar Hoven (June 21st — June 24th)

• Defense counsel’s closing statement (July 18th)

• Defendant’s personal statement (July 19th)

• Verdict (August 19th)

• Sentenced (August 20th)

• Appeals:

  1. Denied by the Military Governor of the US Zone (November 22nd)

  2. Denied by the United States Supreme Court (February 16th, 1948)

• Executed (June 2nd)