October 5, 1912 - Fritz Fischer
A physician by training, Fischer used that expertise not to heal but to conduct forced surgical and pharmaceutical experiments on concentration camp prisoners — among the most direct violations of medical ethics documented in the postwar trials. His conviction at Nuremberg's Doctors' Trial placed him within a cohort of medical professionals whose crimes prompted the drafting of the Nuremberg Code, a foundational document in the ethics of human experimentation. The relatively brief span of his actual imprisonment, despite a life sentence, reflects the broader pattern of early releases that marked Allied denazification in the 1950s.
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Fritz Ernst Fischer (5 October 1912 – 2003) was a Nazi German medical doctor who performed medical atrocities on inmates of the Ravensbrück concentration camp. He was tried and convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the 1947 Doctors' Trial; he was sentenced to life imprisonment, but his sentence was commuted to 15 years and he was released in 1954.
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