Nazi freezing experiments

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Performed between August 1942 and May 1943 at the Dachau Concentration Camp, primarily for the Luftwaffe, the nonconsual Nazi freezing experiments explored treatments for persons who had been severely chilled.

Experiments

Experimenters

At the Medical Case (NMT), the following participants were tried: Hermann Becker-Freyseng, Karl Brandt, Rudolf Brandt, Karl Gebhardt, Siegfried Handloser, Joachim Mrugowsky, Helmut Poppendick, Oskar Schroeder, Wolfram Sievers, and Georg August Weltz.

  • Convicted: Rudolf Brandt, Handloser], Schroeder, and Sievers
  • Acquitted: Becker-Freyseng, Karl Brandt, Gebhardt, Mrugowsky, Poppendick, and Weltz were acquitted