Waldemar Hoven

German physician, SS officer and convicted war criminal (1903-1948)

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Lived 1903–1948, aged 45Germany
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    1903–1948
    Aged 45
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Updated 2026-06-16

Waldemar Hoven was a Nazi physician at Buchenwald concentration camp, and convicted war criminal for conducting human experiments regarding typhus which led to the deaths of many concentration camp prisoners, and as one of the organizers of the euthanasia program Aktion T4; this Nazi initiative resulted in the systematic murder of 275,000 to 300,000 disabled people. He was sentenced to death and hanged on 2 June 1948.

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