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The German defence accused the Allies of conducting human experiments and devising grim scientific weapons. The prosecution asked each defendant about what principles should be followed when conducting human experiments.1 The accused stressed that they were highly ethical in their overall outlook, and that they had a firm sense of how ethically to conduct their research. The judges allowed the defendants considerable latitude to express their views on ethics, and this culminated in the cross-examination of Ivy by Ruff, Rose and Beiglböck. Taylor considered this a very unusual thing, but it showed the judges’ recognition of the complexity of the case — ‘Curiously enough, we were educated in large part by our opponents.’2
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Weindling, P.J. (2004). Formulating the Code. In: Nazi Medicine and the Nuremberg Trials. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230506053_16
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