Post-war legacies, 1945-2015: victims, bodies, and brain tissues

At the close of World War II there was a high level of concern with Nazi human experiments. Allied occupation authorities were concerned about the holding of victim body parts. The Nuremberg Medical Trial prosecuted a set of leading perpetrators of human experiments, among whom were 20 physicians. US prosecutors mounted a series of trials at Dachau when perpetrators were convicted including Claus Schilling for malaria experiments at Dachau, and Helmut Vetter for pharmacological experiments at Mauthausen and Auschwitz. In 1951, Chancellor Adenauer provided a compensation scheme, although there were only a few surviving victims