Wilhelm Beiglböck
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Wilhelm Beiglböck pleading "not guilty" at the Doctors' Trial.
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Beiglböck (born October 10, 1905, Hochneukirchen, Lower Austria, Austria – November 22, 1963, Buxtehude, Lower Saxony, Germany), Internist. Consulting Physician to the German Luftwaffe during World War II.
Member of the NSDAP and member of the SA (SA Obersturmbannführer). Nazi medical researcher responsible for seawater experiments in Dachau concentration camp.
Beiglboeck was a defendant in the Nuremberg Doctor's Trial. He was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. His sentence was commuted to 10 years and from 1952 - 1963 he served as the chief physician at Hospital of Buxtehude.
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Beiglböck, Wilhelm
(born June 8, 1895 in Preetz, Holstein – in Hamburg, Germany),
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