<p>Herta Oberheuser was a physician at the Ravensbrück concentration camp. This photograph shows her being sentenced at the <a href="/narrative/9245">Doctors Trial</a> in Nuremberg. Oberheuser was found guilty of performing <a href="/narrative/3000">medical experiments</a> on camp inmates and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Nuremberg, Germany, August 20, 1947.</p>

Doctors Trial

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