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Description: Death by hanging is pronounced by a U.S. War Crimes Tribunal at Nuernberg upon Adolf Hitler's personal physcian, 43-year old Karl Brandt. Brandt, who was also Reich Commisser for Health and Sanitation, was indicted by the U.S. prosecution with 22 other Nazi doctors and SS officers on war crimes charges in the first case of alleged criminals tried after the judgment in the International Military Tribunal. The Tribunal found him guilty on all four counts charging him with conspiracy in aggressive wars, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and membership in the criminal SS organization. Among those criminal acts was his participating in and consenting to using concentration camp inmates as guinea pigs in horrible medical experiments, supposedly for the benefit of the armed forces.

On June 2, 1948, the hangman's noose at Landsberg prison ended his career, as the executioner of thousands of helpless political, racial, and religious persecutees after the U.S. Military Commander Gen. Lucius D. Clay and the U.S. Supreme court upheld the Nuernberg Tribunal's judgment. In a long-winded speech that was finally muffled when the black hood was thrown over his head, Brandt shouted arrogantly, "It is no shame to stand on this scaffold; I have served my country as have others before me".

In this fortress-like building near Munich Hitler also was imprisoned in 1923 following his unsuccessful Munich putsch, and during confinement wrote what was later to become the Nazi bible, "Mein Kampf". [Original Descriptive Caption]. Date: 20 August 1947 Provenance: From Public Relations Photo Section, Office Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, Nuernberg, Germany, APO 696-A, US Army. Photo No. OMT-I-D-144. Citation: Telford Taylor Papers, Arthur W. Diamond Law Library, Columbia University Law School, New York, N.Y. : TTP-CLS: 15-1-1-76.