Hermann Becker-Freyseng
German physician; consultant for aviation medicine with the Luftwaffe during the Nazi era; one of those convicted at the Doctors' Trial (1910-1961) · Germany · On the map · Academics · Died at 51
Hermann Becker-Freyseng was a German physician, consultant for aviation medicine with the Luftwaffe and a convicted Nazi war criminal, who oversaw human experimentation on concentration camp prisoners.
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Becker-Freyseng was tried and convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Doctors' Trial in 1947; he was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment, but his sentence was commuted to 10 years and he was released in 1952.