Nurses and human subjects research during the Third Reich and now

After the end of World War II, the world became aware of the unethical, violent and often capricious human subjects research on the concentration camp prisoners in Germany and Poland that was documented in the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial 1946-1949. During this trial, the participation of physicians and scientists in these experiments was exposed to the world. It was, and still is, difficult to understand how graduates of some of the world's best universities became instruments of the state to further its racial and military agendas