Karl Gebhardt

Karl Gebhardt
Born	Karl Franz Gebhardt (1897-11-23)23 November 1897 Haag in Oberbayern, Bavaria, German Empire
Died	2 June 1948(1948-06-02) (aged 50) Landsberg Prison, Landsberg am Lech, Allied-occupied Germany
Cause of death	Execution by hanging
Resting place	Ostfriedhof (Munich)
Nationality	German
Occupation	Physician
Title	SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant of the Waffen-SS
Political party	Nazi Party
Criminal status	Executed
Awards	Knight's Cross of the War Merit Cross
Conviction(s)	War crimes Crimes against humanity Membership in a criminal organization
Trial	Doctors' trial
Criminal penalty	Death

Karl Franz Gebhardt (23 November 1897 – 2 June 1948) was a Nazi physician and a war criminal. Gebhardt was the main coordinator of a series of medical atrocities performed on inmates of the concentration camps at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz. These experiments were an attempt to defend his approach to the surgical management of grossly contaminated traumatic wounds, against the then-new innovations of antibiotic treatment of injuries acquired on the battlefield.^[1]

During the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials, Gebhardt stood trial in the Doctors' trial (American Military Tribunal No. I). He was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to death on 20 August 1947. He was hanged on 2 June 1948, in Landsberg Prison in Bavaria.^[1]