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'''Waldemar Hoven''' (10 February 1903 - 2 June 1948) was a [[Nazi]] physician and [[SS]] member involved in the [[Nazi Medical Experimentation]] program. | '''Waldemar Hoven''' (10 February 1903 - 2 June 1948) was a [[Nazi]] physician and [[SS]] member involved in the [[Nazi Medical Experimentation]] program. | ||
== Nazi career == | == Nazi career == | ||
Hoven joined the SS in 1934, and graduated from medical school in 1939, becoming an SS physician and rising to the rank of ''SS-Hauptsturmführer'' soon after. In his role at Buchenwald [[Concentration Camp]], Hoven was involved in human experimentation, and was responsible for experiments regarding the human immune system and tolerance of phenol. These experiments took the form of giving camp inmates injections of typhus and phenol, leading to the deaths of many test subjects. He was also involved in [[Action T4]], the Nazi euthanasia program during which children with disabilities were [[Murder|Murdered]], alongside Jews, who were deemed unfit to work. | Hoven joined the SS in 1934, and graduated from medical school in 1939, becoming an SS physician and rising to the rank of ''SS-Hauptsturmführer'' soon after. In his role at Buchenwald [[Concentration Camp]], Hoven was involved in human experimentation, and was responsible for experiments regarding the human immune system and tolerance of phenol. These experiments took the form of giving camp inmates injections of typhus and phenol, leading to the deaths of many test subjects. He was also involved in [[Action T4]], the Nazi euthanasia program during which children with disabilities were [[Murder|Murdered]], alongside Jews, who were deemed unfit to work. | ||
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At the end of [[World War II]], Hoven was arrested by Allied forces and charged at the Doctor's Trial, the trial at Nuremberg of those involved in Action T4 and the Medical Experimentation program. He was convicted on counts of [[War crimes]], [[Crimes against humanity]] and membership in a criminal organization and sentenced to death, alongside co-defendants [[Karl Brandt]], [[Viktor Brack]], [[Rudolf Brandt]], [[Karl Gebhardt]], [[Joachim Mrugowsky]] and [[Wolfram Sievers]]. Hoven was executed by hanging at Landsberg Prison in June 1948. | At the end of [[World War II]], Hoven was arrested by Allied forces and charged at the Doctor's Trial, the trial at Nuremberg of those involved in Action T4 and the Medical Experimentation program. He was convicted on counts of [[War crimes]], [[Crimes against humanity]] and membership in a criminal organization and sentenced to death, alongside co-defendants [[Karl Brandt]], [[Viktor Brack]], [[Rudolf Brandt]], [[Karl Gebhardt]], [[Joachim Mrugowsky]] and [[Wolfram Sievers]]. Hoven was executed by hanging at Landsberg Prison in June 1948. | ||