list of nazi doctors list of nazi doctors this is a list of notable medical doctors in nazi germany. doctors' trial, nuremberg, 1946–1947 part of a series onnazism organizations national socialist germanworkers' party (nsdap) sturmabteilung (sa) schutzstaffel (ss) geheime staatspolizei (gestapo) hitler youth (hj) deutsches jungvolk (dj) league of german girls (bdm) national socialist german doctors' league national socialist german students' league (nsdstb) national socialist league of the reich for physical exercise (nsrl) national socialist flyers corps (nsfk) national socialist motor corps (nskk) national socialist women's league (nsf) combat league of revolutionary national socialists (kgrns) history early timeline hitler's rise to power machtergreifung german rearmament nazi germany religion in nazi germany adolf hitler's cult of personality enabling act of 1933 night of the long knives nuremberg rallies anti-comintern pact kristallnacht world war ii the holocaust tripartite pact denazification nuremberg trials neo-nazism ideology fascism totalitarianism führerprinzip authoritarian democracy houston stewart chamberlain gleichschaltung arthur de gobineau hitler's political views mein kampf the myth of the twentieth century militarism national socialist program new order preussentum und sozialismus propaganda religious aspects strasserism symbolism women in nazi germany racial ideology antisemitism aryan race blood and soil völkisch movement an essay on the inequality of the human races eugenics nazi racial theories the foundations of the nineteenth century greater germanic reich heim ins reich lebensraum master race the passing of the great race racial policy of nazi germany völkisch equality volkskörper final solution concentration camps deportations doctors' trial extermination camps genocide ghettos human experimentation labour camps pogroms racial segregation people adolf hitler joseph goebbels hermann göring martin bormann kurt daluege richard walther darré anton drexler dietrich eckart adolf eichmann gottfried feder hans frank wilhelm frick rudolf hess reinhard heydrich heinrich himmler hans lammers joachim von ribbentrop karl dönitz ernst röhm alfred rosenberg arthur seyss-inquart albert speer gregor strasser otto strasser julius streicher nazism outside of germany american nazi party nordic resistance movement aria party (persia) arrow cross party (hungary) azure party (persia) national socialist bulgarian workers party german american bund german national movement in liechtenstein greek national socialist party south african gentile national socialist movement hungarian national socialist party nasjonal samling (norway) national movement of switzerland national socialist movement in the netherlands national socialist bloc (sweden) national socialist league (uk) national socialist movement of chile national socialist movement(united states) national socialist party (romania) national socialist workers' party of denmark national unity party of canada nazism in brazil nationalist liberation alliance (argentina) ossewabrandwag (south africa) sumka tsagaan khas (mongolia) world union of national socialists lists bibliography of adolf hitler nazi ideologues nazi party leaders and officials nazi party members speeches given by adolf hitler ss personnel related topics beefsteak nazi glossary of nazi germany hitlers zweites buch category germany portal when the nazi government came to power it purged germany of its 6,000 to 7,000 jewish doctors. reportedly more than 7% of all german physicians became members of the nazi party during world war ii, a far higher percentage than the general population. in 1942 more than 38,000 german doctors, half the total number of doctors, had joined the nazi party. while most of these doctors were physicians, some held doctorates (phds) in biology, anthropology, or related fields. doctors who were working for the state, and not for their patients, using a mendelian type of logic chart, saw extermination of their patients as the correct solution to the problem of mental illness and the genetically defective. "the participation in the ‘betrayal of hippocrates’ had a broad basis within the german medical profession. without the doctors' active help, the holocaust could not have happened." wrote e ernst in the international journal of epidemiology. psychiatrist ernst rüdin was the founder of the psychiatric genetics field and was also a founder of the german racial hygiene movement. killing and experimentation became medical procedures as they were performed by licensed doctors. a doctor was present at all the mass killings for legal reasons. during the doctors' trial, the defense argued that there was no international law to distinguish between legal and illegal human experimentation, which led to the creation of the nuremberg code (1947). after the war, the german medical association blamed nazi atrocities on a small group of 350 criminal doctors. after nazi germany surrendered, some doctors attempted to change names to escape capture and trial, such as werner heyde and robert ley, other doctors, such as walter schreiber, were covertly moved to the united states during "operation paperclip" in 1951. the following are alphabetical lists of world war ii physicians who were members of the nazi party. some of those listed here were acquitted of the more serious charges, but were still found guilty for other crimes. euthanasia