Rudolf Brandt, an SS officer and aide to Himmler, was found guilty of a host of war crimes, including conducting medical experimentation and killing tuberculosis-infected people. Sentenced to death, he was hanged on June 2, 1948.

"The idea behind the negative reaction now is that the Nazis were criminals; we are decent. That's not true. What we've done is not as evil, but it's in the ballpark."

—Dr. Arthur Caplan, bioethicist now at the University of Pennsylvania, commenting about uproar surrounding physiologist Robert Pozos' proposed use of Nazi data on hypothermia [17]

"The conduct of Nazi physician-scientists was barbarous, revolting, monstrous, devoid of any decency. Their research defiled human beings, medicine, science, and humanity. They dragged through bloody mud an honorable profession to which contemporary physician-scientists who now wish to make use of these results belong."

—Jay Katz, M.D., Yale University School of Law [18]

"Today some doctors want to use the only thing left by these victims. They are like vultures waiting for the corpses to cool so they could devour every consummable part. To use the Nazi data is obscene and sick. One can always rationalize that it would save human lives; the question should be asked, at what cost?"

—Eva Mozes Kor, survivor of Dr. Josef Mengele's twins experiments at Auschwitz [19]

"We must not add our numbers to the multitudes of onlookers who slept peacefully through the nights of anguished cries while dreaming their sweet dreams of a better tomorrow."

—Dr. Willard Gaylin, psychiatrist and former president of The Hastings Center, a biomedical ethics thinktank [20]