Nuremberg Code: Quick Facts

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Date	August 1947
Location	Germany • Nuremberg
Context	World War II

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Oskar Schroeder, in a suit and glasses, sits in court reading from a document while testifying at the Doctors' Trial in Nuremberg, Germany, 1947.

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