Nazi freezing experiments
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Conducted primarily for the Luftwaffe, between August 1942 - May 1943, to investigate treatments for persons who had been severely chilled, using prisoners at the Dachau Concentration Camp camp. Charged against Hermann Becker-Freyseng, Karl Brandt, Rudolf Brandt, Karl Gebhardt, Siegfried Handloser, Karl Mrugowsky, Helmut Poppendick, Oskar Schroeder, Wolfram Sievers, and Georg August Weltz. Hermann Becker-Freyseng, Karl Brandt, Karl Gebhardt, Karl Mrugowsky, Helmut Poppendick, and Georg August Weltz were acquitted; Rudolf Brandt, Siegfried Handloser, Schroeder, and Sievers were convicted.