On 17 July 2024, Project Officer Dr Pablo Gavira Díaz remotely participated in a seminar titled “Medical experimentation in concentration camps and the Nuremberg Code: A reflection on the ethics of research on human beings”. Dr Gavira Díaz’s presentation focused on the Medical Case, known also as the Doctors’ Trial, the first of the twelve subsequent proceedings that followed the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. He covered the crimes committed by the defendants, including the Euthanasia Program and Aktion T4. This aimed at murdering institutionalised patients with disabilities in Germany. The discussion also revolved around the Nuremberg Code, a set of ten principles included in the judgment defining ethical medical research.
The seminar, held in Spanish, was organised by the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the Colombian Universidad Militar Nueva Granada. Other topics for discussion included the experiments committed in concentration camps and the relevancy of the Nuremberg Code today. (pg)