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15.35 o’clock—Oberstabsarzt Dr. Weltz:
“Warming Up after Freezing to the Danger Point”.
15.55 o’clock—Stabsarzt Professor Holzloehner:
“Prevention and Treatment of Freezing.”
16.40 o’clock—Discussion.
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PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 90
LETTER FROM RASCHER TO HIMMLER, 16 OCTOBER 1942, TRANSMITTING REPORT ON
COOLING EXPERIMENTS ON HUMAN BEINGS (NO-428)
Dr. Sigmund Rascher
Munich 16 October 42
Troger Str. 56
Highly esteemed Reich Leader!
Permit me to submit the attached final report on the super-cooling
experiments performed at Dachau. This report does not contain the course
and results of a series of experiments with drugs as well as experiments
with animal body heat [animalische Waerme] which are now being
conducted. Likewise this report does not contain the microscopic
pathological examinations of the brain tissues of the deceased. I was
surprised at the extraordinary microscopic findings in this field. I
will carry out experiments before the start of the conference in which
the effect of cooling will be discussed and I hope to be able to present
further results by that time. My two coworkers left Dachau about 8 days
ago.
In the hope that you, highly esteemed Reich Leader, will be able to
spare a quarter of an hour to listen to an oral report, I remain, with
the most obedient regards and
Heil Hitler!
Yours respectfully.
[Signed] S. RASCHER.
PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-428
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 91