Nazi poison experiments

Conducted between December 1943 and October 1944 at Buchenwald (food) and Sachsenhausen Concentration Camps(bullets), the Nazi poison experiments were intended to investigate the effect of various poisons, including poison in food and poisoned bullets. The victims were Russian prisoners of war. Bullets were poisoned with aconitine nitrate.

Karl Gebhardt, Karl Genzken, Joachim Mrugowsky, and Helmut Poppendick were charged in the Medical Case (NMT). Gebhardt, Genzken, and Poppendick were acquitted; Mrugowsky was convicted and hanged.

Erwin Ding-Schuler and Albert Widmann, according to Mrugowsky's testimony, were also present during the shootings. Ding-Schuler committed suicide, while Widmann was sentenced, by a German court in 1967, to six years and six months.