The Doctors’ Trial at Nuremberg: Medicine in the Third Reich

American military’s proceedings against German physicians and administrators for their participation in the T-4 “euthanasia” program, medical experimentation on human beings, and the systematic murder of those the Nazis deemed "life unworthy of life."

Born in Prague and raised in Australia, Harry Reicher is a graduate of Monash University, in Melbourne, with graduate law degrees from the University of Melbourne and Harvard Law School. From 1995-2004, he was Director of International Affairs and Representative to the United Nations of Agudath Israel World Organization, in which capacity he practiced international law and diplomacy in the field of human rights, with particular emphasis on freedom of religion.

In addition, he was heavily involved in Holocaust-era restitution, reparations and compensation, and the plethora of litigation arising therefrom. As a Barrister at Law, he has argued cases before a range of courts and tribunals, including the High Court of Australia, and the courts of England, up to the House of Lords (and also in the United States). He has taught at Penn Law School since 1995, and has pioneered what is effectively a new academic discipline, combining Holocaust studies and law. In 2004, President Bush appointed him to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. He has published in the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law and is the editor of Australian International Law: Cases and Materials, the first-ever indigenous Australian Casebook on international law.