Editing Aktion T4 (section)

===Doctors' trial===
{{Main|Euthanasia trials|Doctors' trial}}

After the war trials were held in connection with the Nazi euthanasia programme at various places including [[Dresden]], [[Frankfurt]], [[Graz]], [[Nuremberg]] and [[Tübingen]]. In December 1946 an American military tribunal (commonly called the Doctors' trial) prosecuted 23 doctors and administrators for their roles in war crimes and [[crimes against humanity]]. These crimes included the systematic killing of those deemed "unworthy of life", including people with mental disabilities, the people who were institutionalised mentally ill and people with physical impairments. After 140 days of proceedings, including the testimony of 85 witnesses and the submission of 1,500 documents, in August 1947 the court pronounced 16 of the defendants guilty. Seven were sentenced to death; the men, including Brandt and Brack, were executed on 2 June 1948.

The indictment read in part:
{{blockquote|14. Between September 1939 and April 1945 the defendants Karl Brandt, [[Kurt Blome|Blome]], Brack, and [[Waldemar Hoven|Hoven]] unlawfully, wilfully, and knowingly committed crimes against humanity, as defined by Article II of Control Council Law No. 10, in that they were principals in, accessories to, ordered, abetted, took a consenting part in, and were connected with plans and enterprises involving the execution of the so called "euthanasia" program of the German Reich, in the course of which the defendants herein murdered hundreds of thousands of human beings, including German civilians, as well as civilians of other nations. The particulars concerning such murders are set forth in paragraph 9 of count two of this indictment and are incorporated herein by reference.|International Military Tribunal{{sfn|Taylor|1949}}}}

Earlier, in 1945, American forces tried seven staff members of the [[Hadamar killing centre]] for the killing of Soviet and Polish nationals, which was within their jurisdiction under international law, as these were the citizens of wartime allies. (Hadamar was within the [[American Zone of Occupation]] in Germany. This was before the Allied resolution of December 1945, to prosecute individuals for "crimes against humanity" for such mass atrocities.) Alfons Klein, Heinrich Ruoff and Karl Willig were sentenced to death and executed; the other four were given long prison sentences.{{sfn|NARA|1980|pp=1–12}} In 1946, reconstructed German courts tried members of the Hadamar staff for the murders of nearly 15,000 German citizens. The chief physician, Adolf Wahlmann and [[Irmgard Huber]], the head nurse, were convicted.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}}