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Herta Oberheuser

Herta Oberheuser, defendant in the Doctors’ Trial (Case 1), stands to hear her sentence. Oberheuser was a doctor at KZ Ravensbrück and participated in medical experiments on the prisoners. Her specialty was murdering and dissecting children. Sentenced in 1947 to twenty-years imprisonment, Oberheuser was released in 1952. Photo by anonymous (20 August 1947). U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. PD-U.S. Government. Wikimedia Commons.

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