Nazi regeneration and transplantation experiments

Nazi regeneration and transplantation experiments which were called "bone, muscle, and nerve regeneration, and bone transplant" in the indictment, were conducted for the benefit of German armed forces, using Polish inmates at the Ravensbrueck Concentration Camp, (September 1942-December 1943).

While many of the experiments had little scientific basis, this was highly questionable even in the 1940s, when basic blood typing and transfusion were known. Bone, muscle, and nerve apparently were treated purely as a surgical problem; immunologic tissue matching was not done, and immunosuppression was not yet known. Some of the procedures made no anatomic sense.

In the Medical Case (NMT) Karl Brandt, Rudolf Brandt, Fritz Fischer, Karl Gebhardt, Siegfried Handloser, Herta Oberheuser, and Paul Rostock were charged.

Charges against Rudolf Brandt was withdrawn. Karl Brandt, Handloser, and Rostock were acquitted; Fischer, Gebhardt, and Oberheuser were convicted.