Berlin SW 11, Prinz Albrecht Str. 8
Dear Reich Leader,
Enclosed I present to you in condensed form a summary of the results of
the experiments made in warming up people who have been cooled off by
using animal heat.
Right now I am attempting to prove through experiments on human beings
that it is possible to warm up people cooled off by dry cold just as
fast as people who were cooled off by remaining in cold water. The Reich
Physician SS, SS Gruppenfuehrer Dr. Grawitz, doubted very much that that
would be possible and said that I would have to prove it first by 100
experiments. Up to now I have cooled off about 30 people stripped in the
open air during 9-14 hours at 27°-29°. After a time corresponding to a
transport of 1 hour, I put these subjects in a hot bath. _Up to now_
every single patient was completely warmed up within 1 hour at most,
though some of them had their hands and feet frozen white. In some cases
a slight fatigue with slightly rising temperature was observed on the
day following the experiments. I have not observed any fatal results
from this extremely fast warming up. I have not so far been able to do
any warming up by “Sauna” as ordered by you, my dear Reich Leader, as
the weather in December and January was too warm for any experiments in
the open air, and right now the camp is closed on account of typhoid and
I am not allowed therefore to bring in subjects, for “Sauna”
experiments.
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