Execution of Joachim Mrugowsky
- German Nazi Doctor - Nazi Medical Experiments - World War 2

10 March 2022

Category: Nazi Doctors

Joachim Mrugowsky was born on 15 August 1905. At the University of Halle he became a group leader of the National Socialist German Students' League and in 1931 he joined the SA and then the SS. An avowed Nazi, in February 1934 he received a teaching position for "Human Heredity and Racial Hygiene" at the University of Halle. In 1943 he was appointed director of the Waffen-SS Institute of Hygiene and started to be involved in numerous human experiments on prisoners. These would be conducted in various German Nazi concentration camps including Sachsenhausen near Berlin.

Mrugowsky was brutal and had no mercy with his victims. His specialties were biological warfare agents and he also experimented with typhus vaccines and lethal injections. After the war, Joachim Mrugowsky was arrested and tried at the Nuremberg Doctors' trial. He had earned a seat at this trial next to such evil doctors as Hitler’s personal physician Karl Brandt or Karl Gebhardt who often used a hammer to break the legs of female prisoners in Ravensbrück concentration camp. Joachiim Mrugowsky was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to death by hanging. The verdict was carried out on 2 June, 1948 in Landsberg Prison.

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