Paul Rostock

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Paul Rostock
Doctors' trial

Paul Rostock (18 January 1892 – 17 June 1956) was a

Surgical Clinic.

After the end of World War II, he was tried as a war criminal in the Doctors' Trial for his complicity in medical atrocities performed on concentration camp prisoners.

Education and Nazi Party membership

Rostock was born in

Surgical Clinic in Ziegel Street, where Karl Brandt was then working as assistant medical director. Rostock became dean of the medical faculty at the University of Berlin in 1942.

Rostock joined the

on February 20, 1940 (Nr. 31,569).

Rostock's military medical career began in 1939 with a position as Consulting Surgeon to the Wehrmacht. In 1943, General Commissioner Karl Brandt chose Rostock as his deputy and representative in the Medical Science Research Department.

Doctor's Trial and later years

Rostock was a defendant in the

He immediately began to work on documentation of the Doctors' Trial, with the goal of presenting the trial to the public from another perspective. Rostock never finished this project.

In 1948, Rostock began working as medical supervisor of Versehrten Hospital in

.

See also

• Doctors' Trial
• Nazi human experimentation

References