<P> The Nuremberg Code (German: Nürnberger Kodex) is a set of research ethics principles for human experimentation set as a result of the subsequent Nuremberg trials at the end of the Second World War . </P> <P> The origin of the Nuremberg Code began in pre-World War II German politics, particularly during the 1930s and 1940s . The pre-war German Medical Association was considered to be a progressive yet democratic association with great concerns for public health, one example being the legislation of compulsory health insurance for German workers . However, starting in the mid-1920s, German physicians, usually proponents of racial hygiene, were accused by the public and the medical society of unethical medical practices . The use of racial hygiene was supported by the German government in order to create an Aryan "master race," and to exterminate those who did not fit into their criteria . Racial hygiene extremists merged with National Socialism to promote the use of biology to accomplish their goals of racial purity, a core concept in the Nazi ideology . Physicians were attracted to the scientific ideology and aided in the establishment of National Socialist Physicians' League in 1929 to "purify the German medical community of' Jewish Bolshevism ."' Criticism was becoming prevalent; Alfons Stauder, member of the Reich Health Office, claimed that the "dubious experiments have no therapeutic purpose," and Fredrich von Muller, physician and the president of the Deutsche Akademie, joined the criticism . </P>

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