4. Experiments concerned with adaptation to freezing cold in snow huts (igloos) to be carried out under varying diets in order to establish whether adaptation to cold [German text says “Gewaehrung”, i. e. consent, which evidently is a typographical error] and resistance increase against freezing is possible. These experiments are to be carried out on the site of the SS Mountain Retreat Sudelfeld.
5. The procurement of the apparatus needed for all the experiments should be discussed in detail with the offices of the Reicharzt SS, of the SS Main Office for Economic Administration and with the Ahnenerbe. The necessary chemical products, medical supplies, and glassware will be made available by the SS Medical Office, Berlin.
6. Publication of results obtained in such tests subject to my approval only.
[Signed] H. Himmler
EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF TRIBUNAL WITNESS WALTER NEFF[[25]]
EXAMINATION BY PROSECUTION
Mr. McHaney: * * * When did the high-altitude experiments begin in Dachau?
Witness Neff: The first high-altitude experiments were on 22 February 1942. The so-called low-pressure chambers had been brought in earlier and dismounted. The exact time when the chambers came is not known to me.
Q. Why do you remember the date when the first experiments were made in the low-pressure chambers so well?