Interrogation of Waldemar Hoven on charges of conducting medical experiments in Buchenwald

Interrogation of Waldemar Hoven on charges of conducting medical experiments in Buchenwald 

Interrogation of Waldemar Hoven on charges of conducting medical experiments in Buchenwald 

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Interrogation of Waldemar Hoven on charges of conducting medical experiments in Buchenwald Waldemar Hoven was born in Freiburg, Germany, 10 February 1903; visit by Hoven to Denmark, Sweden, the United States and France, 1919-1933, return to Freiburg, 1933; completion of high school studies followed by attendance at the Universities of Freiburg and Munich; joins the SS, 1934; conclusion of medical studies, 1939; Work as a physician for the SS, rising to the rank of Hauptsturmführer in the Waffen SS; participation by Hoven in the conduction of medical experiments involving typhus and the tolerance of serum containing phenol, leading to the deaths of many inmates; involvement in Nazi euthanasia programs during which people considered"useless eater" (people with disabilities who couldn't contribute to society) were murdered, along with Jews considered unfit for labor; Arrest of Hoven by the Nazis, 1943, accused of giving a lethal injection of phenol to an SS officer, a potential witness in an investigation against Ilse Koch with whom Hoven was rumoured to be having an affair; conviction and sentencing to death; release due to the Nazi shortage of doctors, March 1945; Arrest of Hoven by the Allies following World War II; on trial as a defendant at the Doctors' Trial (a part of the larger Nuremberg Trials); being found guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity and membership in a criminal organization; given death sentence and hanged at Landsberg prison, Bavaria, 02 June 1948.