Throughout medicine, there have been heroes, villains, and people in between. Which category they fall into is up to the viewer. However, whether the person in question is considered a good or bad person, they could still have contributed to the history of medicine. This is the case of Karl Brandt, a doctor who worked under Hitler during World War II. Although he may have practiced medicine in an unconventional way, he was a major figure who made an impact. Brandt, a German doctor, befriended Hitler through Anni Rehborn, Brandt's future wife. He rose through the ranks and gained Hitler's trust by caring for SA officers who were victims of a car accident. Brandt soon became a member of the SA and then the SS. He was later appointed as Hitler's physician and traveled with him in times of emergency. Eventually, his close relationship with Hitler gave him great power in the medical field. Brandt's first tasks began with performing abortions on women deemed unfit for reproduction or whose fetuses were considered defective. The reason was to achieve a more perfect union, but many Nazis found this plan too slow. To speed up the purification process, they created the T-4 euthanasia program. This program aimed to massacre innocent people considered incurable or defective. On September 1, 1939, Brandt was named co-responsible for the program alongside Philipp Bouhler. It was here that Brandt became a part of medical history. The T-4 euthanasia program was initiated under the pretext that it was merciful killing. Doctors were seen as men who helped poor victims of illness die in peace. However, many of those killed were mentally ill and therefore were not going to die...... middle of paper ...... carrying out horrific tests on innocent victims thinking it was for the good of Germany. Although Nazi doctors tortured and killed so many innocent people, they eventually paid for their crimes. The doctors' trial found sixteen of the twenty-three doctors and workers guilty and seven were sentenced to death. Brandt was one of those executed doctors. He was hanged on July 2, 1948 in Landsberg prison, alongside three fellow doctors and three assistants. Karl Brandt was a remarkable doctor who was ruthless in the company of Hitler and the Nazis. He committed heinous crimes and allowed many other gruesome experiments to be carried out. Although some of the tests performed by Brandt and his men led to medical discoveries used in this field today, their work will always be remembered as an atrocity, and many view them as villains..