3. The perpetrator subjected one or more persons to a medical or scientific experiment.

3. The perpetrator subjected one or more persons to a medical or scientific experiment.

In the Hoess Trial, the Tribunal found that:

"[...] castration, sterilization, experimentation causing premature termination of pregnancy, experiments on artificial semination, experiments aimed at cancer research (excision of parts of the uterine body, even on healthy young girls with no sign of cancer), and other experiments (deprival of virginity of young girls and injecting women with hormones)"."[1]

In the Milch case, the Tribunal found that:

"The so-called medical experiments consisted of placing the subject in an airtight chamber in which the air pressure is mechanically reduced so that it is comparable with the pressure to which an aviator is subjected at high altitudes, and in experimenting upon the effect of extreme dry and wet cold upon the human body."[2]

In the Nuremberg Tribunal's case of the Trial of Brandt and others, known as the Medical Case, the Trial Chamber found that:

"[...] the defendants 'were principals in, accessories to, ordered, abetted, took a consenting part in, and were connected with plans and enterprises involving medical experiments without the subjects' consent * * * in the course of which experiments the defendants committed murders, brutalities, cruelties, tortures, atrocities, and other inhuman acts.' It is averred that 'such experiments included, but were not limited to' the following: '(A) High-Altitude Experiments[, ...] (B) Freezing Experiments[, ...] (C) Malaria Experiments[, ...] (D) Lost (Mustard) Gas Experiments[, ...] (E) Sulfanilamide Experiments[, ...] (F) Bone, Muscle, and Nerve Regeneration and Bone Transplanation Experiments[, ...] (G) Sea-Water Experiments[, ...] (H) Epidemic Jaundice Experiments[, ...] (I) Sterilization Experiments[, ...] (J) Spotted Fever (Fleckfieber) Experiments[, ...] (K) Experiments with Poison[, ...] (L) Incendiary Bomb Experiments [...]"[3]