[1] Mitscherlich and Mielke were official observers at the Doctor's trial for the West German Chambers of Physicians.
It was the interim report of the umbrella organization of doctors' associations in Western Germany who had sent out a commission of six observers to the Nuremberg trials.
[3][4] In this initial copy they accused Ferdinand Sauerbruch a top surgeon and Wolfgang Heubner director of the Pharmacological Institute at Berlin University of being accessories to medical crimes as they participated in a conference on the Sulfonamide experiments at Ravensbrück concentration camp, these experiments were extremely cruel and partially fatal.
Mitscherlich was then sued by Sauerbruch and Heubner and so this portion of the book was removed from subsequent editions.
[2] The 1949 the final edition was published, ten thousand copies were printed exclusively for the West German Chambers of Physicians, it did not become known to the public.