page_title: Herta Oberheuser
hierarchical_section_title: Herta Oberheuser
caption_attribution_description: English: Defendant Herta Oberheuser stands up to receive her sentencing at the Doctors' Trial, Nuremberg 1947.
context_page_description: Herta Oberheuser was a Nazi physician and convicted war criminal who performed medical atrocities on prisoners at the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp. She was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment at the Nuremberg Doctors' trial, but served only five. A survivor of Ravensbrück termed her, "a beast masquerading as a human".
context_section_description: Herta Oberheuser (15 May 1911 – 24 January 1978) was a Nazi physician and convicted war criminal who performed medical atrocities on prisoners at the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp. She was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment at the Nuremberg Doctors' trial, but served only five. A survivor of Ravensbrück termed her, "a beast masquerading as a human".
caption: Oberheuser during sentencing to 20 years of imprisonment, Doctors' trial, Nuremberg, August 1947
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