Karl Gebhardt, German physician and war criminal (died 1948)

Karl Gebhardt

German physician, war criminal, SS-Gruppenführer (1897–1948)

Karl Franz Gebhardt 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…