Human Hot Water Bottles

Evening Star, Issue 25672, 21 December 1945, Page 5

Human Hot Water Bottles

Captured documents read by Major Farr disclosed that on orders from Himmler women prisoners were supplied for S.S. concentration cam)) tests in rewarming frozen men with the heat of their naked bodies. Major Farr told the court that Dr Sigmund Ascher eventually reported that in all cases “rewarming by animals’ bodies or women’s bodies was inferior to rapid rewarming of severelychilled persons.”

The prosecutor’s evidence disclosed that Himmler notified the camp authorities that tlieir supply of human beings for medical experiments should exclude bedridden prisoners, who should be drafted for suitable work which they could perform in bed. He also revealed that S.S. surgeons fired poisoned bullets Into the leas of five prisoners and noted the symptoms accompanying the slow deaths of three of them.