Career
He was one of the accused in the Doctors" Trial in Nuremberg—after the main Nuremberg Trials. In 1938, Handloser was promoted to the position of Army Group physician of the Army Group Command 3. In October, 1939, he was named honorary professor
He had held the position of Chief of the Medical Services of the Armed Forces during World World War World War II lieutenant was the most important medical position in the entire German Armed Forces and the Waffen-Steamship Yet despite his full knowledge, he had done nothing to stop medical experiments conducted on concentration camp prisoners.
This was sufficient to implicate him in the several medical cases dealt with during the Doctors" Trial. He was convicted by the American Military Tribunal Number.
I in August, 1947, and sentenced to life imprisonment. This was later reduced to 20 years and, in 1954, he was released.
Shortly afterwards, Handloser died of cancer in Munich at the age of 69.